Bill Text: TX HB4884 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited discrimination by health care providers based on an individual's age, race, disability, immigration status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB4884 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4884-Introduced.html
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| By: Flores | H.B. No. 4884 | |
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| relating to prohibited discrimination by health care providers | ||
| based on an individual's age, race, disability, immigration status, | ||
| sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0333 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0333. PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION BY HEALTH CARE | ||
| PROVIDER BASED ON GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Disability" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 21.002, Labor Code. | ||
| (2) "Gender identity or expression" means having or | ||
| being perceived as having a gender-related identity, appearance, | ||
| expression, or behavior, regardless of whether that identity, | ||
| appearance, expression, or behavior is different from that commonly | ||
| associated with the individual's actual or perceived sex. | ||
| (b) A health care provider may not refuse to provide health | ||
| care services to a patient or enter into a contract for the | ||
| provision of health care services to a patient solely because of a | ||
| patient's age, race, disability, immigration status, sex, sexual | ||
| orientation, or gender identity or expression. | ||
| (c) A health care provider that violates this section is not | ||
| eligible to receive money from this state for services provided to | ||
| patients, including through the medical assistance program under | ||
| Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, or through the child health plan | ||
| program under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
