Bill Text: TX SB87 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health care facility reporting of COVID-19 data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-31 - Co-author authorized [SB87 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB87-Introduced.html
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| By: Eckhardt, Blanco, Menéndez | S.B. No. 87 | |
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| relating to health care facility reporting of COVID-19 data. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 81, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.054 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.054. COVID-19 DATA REPORTING. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "COVID-19" means the 2019 novel coronavirus | ||
| disease. | ||
| (2) "Health care facility" means a hospital, | ||
| freestanding emergency medical care facility, urgent care or retail | ||
| clinic, outpatient clinic, birthing center, ambulatory surgical | ||
| center, long-term care facility, or other facility that is licensed | ||
| to provide health care services in this state. | ||
| (b) Each health care facility that provides health care | ||
| services to a patient diagnosed with COVID-19 shall report to the | ||
| local health authority or department, in the form and manner | ||
| prescribed by the executive commissioner, the number of patients | ||
| treated by the facility who are diagnosed with or hospitalized for | ||
| COVID-19 or for whom COVID-19 is a comorbidity contributing to the | ||
| patient's death. The data must be disaggregated by: | ||
| (1) age; | ||
| (2) gender; | ||
| (3) ethnicity; | ||
| (4) race; | ||
| (5) pregnancy status; and | ||
| (6) vaccination status, including, if applicable, the | ||
| vaccine brand and the number of weeks that have elapsed from the | ||
| date of the patient's final dose of the vaccine to the date the | ||
| facility first provides the services following diagnosis. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner may adopt any rules | ||
| necessary to ensure health care facilities accurately and timely | ||
| report the data required by Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) The department shall compile, publish, and regularly | ||
| update the data collected under this section on the department's | ||
| Internet website, disaggregated as required by Subsection (b). | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
