Bill Text: TX HB1278 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to services provided by freestanding emergency medical care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1278 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1278-Comm_Sub.html
86R20979 SRA-F | |||
By: White | H.B. No. 1278 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1278: | |||
By: Ortega | C.S.H.B. No. 1278 |
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relating to services provided by freestanding emergency medical | ||
care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 254.001, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subdivisions (1) and (5) and adding Subdivision | ||
(1-a) to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Acute care services" means outpatient medical | ||
services, including radiology services, laboratory services, | ||
immunization services, and other non-emergent physician services. | ||
(1-a) "Department" means the Department of State | ||
Health Services. | ||
(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" | ||
means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a | ||
hospital, that receives an individual and provides: | ||
(A) emergency care, as defined by Subdivision | ||
(2); and | ||
(B) acute care services, as defined by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 254, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 254.156 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 254.156. CERTAIN FEES PROHIBITED. A facility that | ||
provides acute care services may not charge an emergency facility | ||
fee for providing the services. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |