By Martin                                             H.B. No. 2269
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to state indemnification and liability insurance premiums
    1-3  for certain health care claims.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 110.001(1), Civil Practice and Remedies
    1-6  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7              (1)  "Charity care or services" means care or services
    1-8  provided by a health care professional <under>:
    1-9                    (A)  under Chapter 31, 32, 35, or 61, Health and
   1-10  Safety Code;
   1-11                    (B)  under the Medicaid program under Chapter 32,
   1-12  Human Resources Code;
   1-13                    (C)  under a contract with a migrant, community,
   1-14  or homeless health center that receives funds under 42 U.S.C.
   1-15  Section 254b, 254c, or 256; <or>
   1-16                    (D)  under Subchapter B, Chapter 311, Health and
   1-17  Safety Code, or 42 U.S.C.  Section 1395dd, to the extent the
   1-18  professional or the hospital in which the care or services are
   1-19  provided is not compensated; or
   1-20                    (E)  for charity care provided by a volunteer
   1-21  health care provider through a charitable organization as defined
   1-22  in Section 84.003 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-1  applies only to a medical malpractice claim that accrues on or
    2-2  after that date.  A medical malpractice claim that accrued before
    2-3  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
    2-4  the time the action accrued, and that law is continued in effect
    2-5  for that purpose.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.