Bill Text: TX SB908 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the operation of medical supply transport vehicles during a declared state of disaster.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [SB908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB908-Comm_Sub.html
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 908 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2017; February 28, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources & | ||
Economic Development; May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, | ||
Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 908 | By: Zaffirini |
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relating to the operation of medical supply transport vehicles | ||
during a declared state of disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 546, Transportation Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER C. OPERATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLY TRANSPORT VEHICLES | ||
Sec. 546.051. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Emergency care facility" means a health care | ||
facility, including a freestanding emergency medical care | ||
facility, hospital, temporary emergency clinic, and trauma | ||
facility, that provides emergency medical care. | ||
(2) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" | ||
means a facility licensed under Chapter 254, Health and Safety | ||
Code. | ||
(3) "Medical supply distributor" means a person | ||
authorized to transport prescription drugs and other medical | ||
supplies to emergency care facilities or pharmacies. | ||
(4) "Nursing home" means a facility licensed under | ||
Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(5) "Pharmacy" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
551.003, Occupations Code. | ||
(6) "Trauma facility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
Sec. 546.052. MEDICAL SUPPLY TRANSPORT VEHICLES DURING | ||
DECLARED DISASTER. (a) A vehicle used by a medical supply | ||
distributor to transport prescription drugs and other medical | ||
supplies to an emergency care facility, pharmacy, or nursing home | ||
located in an area declared a disaster area by the governor under | ||
Chapter 418, Government Code, may have access to highways, streets, | ||
and bridges as if the transport vehicle were an emergency vehicle if | ||
the transport vehicle will not negatively impact evacuation | ||
activities or any response or recovery activities in the disaster | ||
area. | ||
(b) The Texas Division of Emergency Management shall | ||
establish procedures to assist medical supply distributors in | ||
accessing highways, streets, and bridges as authorized by | ||
Subsection (a). | ||
(c) This section does not create a cause of action against a | ||
law enforcement officer involved in assisting a medical supply | ||
distributor under this section for any harm done to the distributor | ||
resulting from that assistance. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2018, the Texas | ||
Division of Emergency Management shall establish the procedures | ||
required by Section 546.052(b), Transportation Code, as added by | ||
this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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