Bill Text: TX SB49 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on the use of state or local money by certain hospitals to pay for travel nurses.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-05 - Filed [SB49 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB49-Introduced.html
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| By: Springer | S.B. No. 49 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on the use of state or local money by | ||
| certain hospitals to pay for travel nurses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle F, Title 4, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 318 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 318. PROHIBITION ON USE OF STATE OR LOCAL MONEY BY CERTAIN | ||
| HOSPITALS | ||
| Sec. 318.0001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease. | ||
| (2) "Hospital" means a public or private facility | ||
| licensed under Chapter 241. | ||
| (3) "Local governmental entity" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 315.001. | ||
| Sec. 318.0002. PROHIBITION ON USE OF STATE OR LOCAL MONEY | ||
| FOR TRAVEL NURSES. A hospital may not use nonfederal money received | ||
| by the hospital from this state or a local governmental entity to | ||
| compensate a travel nurse if the travel nurse is filling a position | ||
| that is vacant because the hospital terminated a member of the | ||
| hospital's nursing staff for refusing to comply with a mandate | ||
| requiring a COVID-19 vaccination imposed by the hospital or the | ||
| state or federal government. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
