Bill Text: TX SB384 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections and preventable adverse events at health care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB384 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB384-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections and preventable adverse events at health care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB384 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB384-Engrossed.html
By: Nelson | S.B. No. 384 |
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relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections and | ||
preventable adverse events at health care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
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that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | ||
requires a facility participating in the Medicare program to report | ||
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(a-1) A health care facility shall report each health | ||
care-associated infection to the department under this section | ||
regardless of the facility's participation in Medicare. | ||
SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Health and | ||
Safety Code are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 98.001(10); | ||
(2) Sections 98.103(b) and (c); and | ||
(3) Section 98.105. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The executive commissioner of the Health | ||
and Human Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, not later than January 1, 2020. | ||
(b) Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to a report for a health care-associated | ||
infection occurring on or after January 1, 2020. A report for a | ||
health care-associated infection occurring before that date is | ||
governed by the law as it existed on the date the infection | ||
occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |