Bill Text: TX SB1882 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to notice regarding voting by physicians at certain entities to authorize the differentiation of physicians based on maintenance of certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1882 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1882-Comm_Sub.html
By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1882 | |
(Bonnen of Galveston) | ||
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relating to notice regarding 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 Section 151.0515(c-1), | ||
Occupations Code, regarding the provision of written notice | ||
regarding the ability to vote on the entity's differentiation | ||
between physicians based on a physician's maintenance of | ||
certification. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 151.0515, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) An entity described by Subsection (a) shall provide | ||
written notice to the voting physician members of the entity's | ||
organized medical staff of the process by which the members may vote | ||
on the entity's differentiation between physicians based on a | ||
physician's maintenance of certification. The notice must: | ||
(1) state that any vote must comply with: | ||
(A) the normal voting process of the entity and | ||
the entity's organized medical staff; and | ||
(B) any applicable law, regulation, or | ||
accreditation requirement; and | ||
(2) be provided: | ||
(A) at least once each calendar year; and | ||
(B) in a form acceptable to the entity and the | ||
entity's organized medical staff for a similar notification, which | ||
may include in electronic form. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |