Bill Text: TX SB707 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption and implementation of a surgical smoke evacuation system policy at certain health care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB707-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 707 | |
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| relating to the adoption and implementation of a surgical smoke | ||
| evacuation system policy at certain health care facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 222, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. SURGICAL SMOKE EVACUATION SYSTEM POLICY AT CERTAIN | ||
| HEALTH CARE FACILITIES | ||
| Sec. 222.061. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Health care facility" means: | ||
| (A) a hospital licensed under Chapter 241, | ||
| including a hospital maintained and operated by this state; | ||
| (B) an ambulatory surgical center licensed under | ||
| Chapter 243; and | ||
| (C) a mental hospital licensed under Chapter 577. | ||
| (2) "Surgical smoke" means the gaseous by-product, | ||
| including surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, | ||
| laser-generated airborne contaminants, or lung-damaging dust, | ||
| produced by an energy-generating device used in a room in which a | ||
| surgical procedure is performed. | ||
| (3) "Surgical smoke evacuation system" means | ||
| equipment designed to capture and neutralize surgical smoke at the | ||
| site of origin and before the surgical smoke makes contact with the | ||
| eyes or respiratory tract of any individual occupying a room in | ||
| which a surgical procedure is performed. | ||
| Sec. 222.062. SURGICAL SMOKE EVACUATION SYSTEM POLICY. A | ||
| health care facility shall adopt and implement a policy to prevent | ||
| an individual's exposure to surgical smoke through the use of a | ||
| surgical smoke evacuation system during each planned surgical | ||
| procedure that is likely to generate surgical smoke. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2024, a health care | ||
| facility shall adopt and implement the policy required by Section | ||
| 222.062, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
