74R7905 KLL-F
By Harris H.B. No. 585
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 585:
By Janek C.S.H.B. No. 585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to hospital staff privileges for physicians, podiatrists,
1-3 and dentists.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 241.101, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (e)-(i)
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (c) The process for considering applications for medical
1-9 staff membership and privileges must afford each physician,
1-10 podiatrist, and dentist <applicant> procedural due process.
1-11 (e) A hospital's bylaw requirements for staff privileges may
1-12 require a physician, podiatrist, or dentist to document the
1-13 person's current clinical competency and professional training and
1-14 experience in the medical procedures for which privileges are
1-15 requested.
1-16 (f) In granting or refusing medical staff membership or
1-17 privileges, a hospital may not differentiate on the basis of the
1-18 academic medical degree held by a physician.
1-19 (g) Graduate medical education may be used as a standard or
1-20 qualification for medical staff membership or privileges for a
1-21 physician only if equal recognition is given to training programs
1-22 accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical
1-23 Education and by the American Osteopathic Association.
1-24 (h) Board certification may be used as a standard or
2-1 qualification for medical staff membership or privileges for a
2-2 physician only if equal recognition is given to certification
2-3 programs approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties and
2-4 the Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists.
2-5 (i) A hospital's credentials committee shall act
2-6 expeditiously and without unnecessary delay when a licensed
2-7 physician, podiatrist, or dentist submits a completed application
2-8 for medical staff membership or privileges. The hospital's
2-9 credentials committee shall take action on the completed
2-10 application not later than the 90th day after the date on which the
2-11 application is received. The governing body of the hospital shall
2-12 take final action on the application for medical staff membership
2-13 or privileges not later than the 60th day after the date on which
2-14 the recommendation of the credentials committee is received. The
2-15 hospital must notify the applicant in writing of the hospital's
2-16 final action, including a reason for denial or restriction of
2-17 privileges, not later than the 20th day after the date on which
2-18 final action is taken.
2-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.