Bill Text: TX HB1278 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: White | 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(5), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(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) outpatient acute care services. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |