Bill Text: TX HB1403 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the definition of health care liability claim for the purposes of certain laws governing those claims.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1403 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1403-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 1403
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the definition of health care liability claim for the
  purposes of certain laws governing those claims.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 74.001(a)(13), Civil Practice and
  Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (13)  "Health care liability claim" means a cause of
  action against a health care provider or physician for treatment,
  lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted
  standards of medical care, or health care, or safety or
  professional or administrative services directly related to health
  care, which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant,
  whether the claimant's claim or cause of action sounds in tort or
  contract. The term does not include a cause of action described by
  Section 406.033(a) or 408.001(b), Labor Code, against an employer
  by an employee or the employee's surviving spouse or heir.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
  this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
  of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the cause of action
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1403 was passed by the House on May
  13, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 1, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1403 was passed by the Senate on May
  24, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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