Bill Text: TX HB4215 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to voting by physicians at certain entities to authorize the differentiation of physicians based on maintenance of certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Public Health [HB4215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4215-Introduced.html
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By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.B. No. 4215 |
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relating to voting by physicians at certain entities to authorize | ||
the differentiation of physicians based on maintenance of | ||
certification. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 241, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 241.1011 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 241.1011. HOSPITAL AUTHORITY TO DIFFERENTIATE BASED ON | ||
MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION. An entity to which Section 151.0515, | ||
Occupations Code, applies violates this chapter if the entity does | ||
not comply with the requirements of that section regarding the | ||
provision of written notice regarding and the holding of an | ||
election to vote on whether to authorize the entity to | ||
differentiate between physicians based on a physician's | ||
maintenance of certification. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 151.0515, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsections (c) and (d) and adding Subsection (c-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Subject to this section, a separately certified [ |
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entity described by Subsection (a) may differentiate between | ||
physicians based on a physician's maintenance of certification if | ||
the voting physician members of that [ |
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medical staff vote to authorize the differentiation. | ||
(c-1) An entity described by Subsection (a) shall: | ||
(1) provide written notice to the voting physician | ||
members of the entity's organized medical staff of the process by | ||
which the members may request an election to vote on whether to | ||
authorize the entity to differentiate between physicians based on a | ||
physician's maintenance of certification; and | ||
(2) if the voting physician members request the | ||
election in accordance with the process described in the notice | ||
required by Subdivision (1), hold the election not later than the | ||
60th day after the date of the request. | ||
(d) An authorization described by Subsection (c) may: | ||
(1) be made only by the voting physician members of the | ||
separately certified entity's organized medical staff and not by | ||
the entity's governing body, administration, medical executive | ||
committee, or any other person; | ||
(2) subject to Subsection (e), establish terms | ||
applicable to the entity's differentiation, including: | ||
(A) appropriate grandfathering provisions; and | ||
(B) limiting the differentiation to certain | ||
medical specialties; and | ||
(3) be rescinded at any time by a vote of the voting | ||
physician members of the entity's organized medical staff. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |