Bill Text: TX HB3381 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to creating the criminal offense of misrepresenting medical history to obtain unnecessary medical treatment for a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3381 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3381-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Cook, Goldman, Capriglione, Schatzline | H.B. No. 3381 |
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relating to creating the criminal offense of misrepresenting | ||
medical history to obtain unnecessary medical treatment for a | ||
child, elderly individual, or disabled individual. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Alyssa's Law. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 22, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 22.042 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 22.042. MISREPRESENTING MEDICAL HISTORY TO OBTAIN | ||
UNNECESSARY MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR CHILD, ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL, OR | ||
DISABLED INDIVIDUAL. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Child" means a person younger than 18 years of | ||
age. | ||
(2) "Disabled individual" and "elderly individual" | ||
have the meanings assigned by Section 22.04. | ||
(3) "Health care institution or provider" means a | ||
health care institution or a health care provider, as those terms | ||
are defined by Section 74.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or | ||
an affiliate, as defined by that section, of a health care | ||
institution or health care provider. | ||
(4) "Medical history" means any oral, written, or | ||
electronic communication regarding an individual's current or | ||
previous symptoms, diagnoses, or family medical history. The term | ||
does not include a communication regarding an individual's | ||
vaccination history. | ||
(b) A person commits an offense if: | ||
(1) the person knowingly misrepresents the medical | ||
history of a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual to a | ||
health care institution or provider with the intent to obtain | ||
unnecessary medical treatment for the child, elderly individual, or | ||
disabled individual; and | ||
(2) the unnecessary medical treatment for the child, | ||
elderly individual, or disabled individual obtained by | ||
misrepresentation under Subdivision (1) causes the child, elderly | ||
individual, or disabled individual to suffer: | ||
(A) bodily injury; or | ||
(B) mental deficiency, impairment, or injury. | ||
(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third | ||
degree. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |