Bill Text: TX SB830 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to use of telemedicine in certain trauma facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-15 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB830 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB830-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 830 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2013; March 5, 2013, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
| Services; April 15, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
| Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; | ||
| April 15, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 830 | By: Schwertner | |
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| relating to use of telemedicine in certain trauma facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 773.1151 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 773.1151. USE OF TELEMEDICINE BY CERTAIN TRAUMA | ||
| FACILITIES. (a) In this section, "telemedicine" means a health | ||
| care service that is initiated by a physician, advanced practice | ||
| nurse, or physician assistant and that requires the use of advanced | ||
| telecommunications technology, other than telephone or facsimile | ||
| technology, including: | ||
| (1) compressed digital interactive video, audio, or | ||
| data transmission; | ||
| (2) clinical data transmission using computer imaging | ||
| by way of still-image capture and store and forward; and | ||
| (3) other technology that facilitates access to health | ||
| care services or medical specialty expertise. | ||
| (b) A health care facility located in a county with a | ||
| population of less than 50,000 may use telemedicine to satisfy a | ||
| level IV trauma facility designation requirement relating to | ||
| physicians if an on-call physician who has special competence in | ||
| the care of critically injured patients uses telemedicine to | ||
| provide patient assessment, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment | ||
| or to transfer medical data to a physician, advanced practice | ||
| nurse, or physician assistant located at the facility. | ||
| (c) Department rules may not, as part of the requirements | ||
| for designation of the facility as a level IV trauma facility, | ||
| require the physical presence or physical availability of a | ||
| physician who has special competence in the care of critically | ||
| injured patients and may not prohibit the use of telemedicine that | ||
| meets the requirements of Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement Section | ||
| 773.1151, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, not later | ||
| than December 1, 2013. | ||
| SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 773.1151, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, a health care facility located in | ||
| a county with a population of less than 50,000 may use telemedicine | ||
| to satisfy a level IV trauma facility designation requirement only | ||
| on or after January 1, 2014. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 September 1, 2013. | ||
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