Bill Amendment: TX SB6 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature
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Bill Title: Relating to liability for certain claims arising during a pandemic or disaster related to a pandemic.
Status: 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB6 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB6-House_Amendment_H_2_3-Schofield.html
Bill Title: Relating to liability for certain claims arising during a pandemic or disaster related to a pandemic.
Status: 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB6 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB6-House_Amendment_H_2_3-Schofield.html
Amend CSSB 6 as follows:
Insert the following section and renumber subsequent sections accordingly:
SECTION ____. Chapter 74, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 74.156 to read as follows:
Sec. 75.156. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNITS
Sec. 241.351. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "children's isolation unit" means an isolation unit in a hospital licensed under this chapter that is designed to provide health care services to children with highly contagious infectious diseases.
Sec. 241.352. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNIT. A children's isolation unit that has instituted isolation protocols is not liable for any claim, damage, or loss arising from the provision of health care services to children with highly contagious diseases, unless the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage or loss constitutes gross negligence or willful misconduct.
