By Rodriguez H.B. No. 379 75R2483 SKB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the delivery of patients to hospitals by emergency 1-3 medical services providers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 773, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 773.010 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 773.010. TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENT REQUIRING EMERGENCY 1-8 CARE. An emergency medical services provider shall transport an 1-9 injured patient requiring emergency medical care to the hospital 1-10 that is nearest the location where the patient is picked up and 1-11 that provides specialized medical care appropriate to the patient's 1-12 injury. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-14 applies only to a transportation of a patient to a hospital 1-15 occurring on or after that date. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.