Bill Text: TX SB2133 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to emergency planning for the transportation of certain end stage renal disease facility patients during a declared disaster.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB2133 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2133-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to emergency planning for the transportation of certain end stage renal disease facility patients during a declared disaster.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB2133 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2133-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles | S.B. No. 2133 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2023; March 21, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; | ||
April 25, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; April 25, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2133 | By: LaMantia |
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relating to emergency planning for the transportation of certain | ||
end stage renal disease facility patients during a declared | ||
disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 773.050, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
(j) Consistent with rules adopted under Section 773.112, | ||
the executive commissioner by rule shall require that each | ||
applicable emergency medical services provider have a plan for | ||
providing a dialysis patient who places an emergency 9-1-1 | ||
telephone call during a declared disaster an alternative mode of | ||
transportation directly to and from an outpatient end stage renal | ||
disease facility if the patient's normal and alternative modes of | ||
transportation cannot be used during the disaster. An emergency | ||
medical services provider's plan under this subsection may | ||
prioritize providing transportation for a patient suffering from an | ||
acute emergency condition over transportation for a dialysis | ||
patient. For purposes of this subsection: | ||
(1) "Disaster" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
418.004, Government Code. The term includes a disaster declared | ||
by: | ||
(A) the president of the United States under the | ||
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 | ||
U.S.C. Section 5121 et seq.); and | ||
(B) the governor under Section 418.014, | ||
Government Code. | ||
(2) "End stage renal disease facility" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 251.001. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 773.112(d), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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