Bill Text: TX SB397 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 397

Bill Title: Relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-21 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB397 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB397-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Sparks	S.B. No. 397
	(In the Senate - Filed November 20, 2024; February 3, 2025,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
	Services; March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional
	of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or
	telehealth service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 111.004, Occupations Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:
	(c) Each agency with regulatory authority over a health
	professional providing a telemedicine medical service,
	teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service shall adopt
	rules necessary to standardize formats for and retention of records
	related to a patient's consent to:
	(1) treatment;
	(2) data collection; and
	(3) data sharing.
	(d) Rules adopted under Subsection (c) must:
	(1) as applicable, address the specific consent
	documentation required for:
	(A) telemedicine medical services;
	(B) teledentistry dental services; or
	(C) telehealth services; and
	(2) include provisions, based on the appropriate
	standard of care, for consent documentation in an audio-only
	format.
	(e) Rules adopted under this section must require that a
	health professional conduct an in-person examination of a patient
	before an irreversible medical procedure is initiated.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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