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.