By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 2453
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition and liability of a hospital district
management contractor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 285.071 and 285.072, Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 285.071. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "hospital
district management contractor" means:
(1) a nonprofit corporation, partnership, or sole
proprietorship that manages a hospital or provides services as a
part of a rural health network as defined under 42 U.S.C. Section
1395i-4(d), as amended, [1395i-4(g)] under contract with a hospital
district that was created by general or special law and that has a
population under 50,000; or
(2) a nonprofit corporation that:
(A) operates an acute care hospital in a hospital
facility it leases from a hospital district that was created by
general or special law; and
(B) provides indigent health care services under
contract with the hospital district.
Sec. 285.072. LIABILITY OF A HOSPITAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT
CONTRACTOR. A hospital district management contractor and any
employee of the contractor are, while performing services under the
contract or lease for the benefit of the hospital, employees of the
hospital district for the purposes of Chapters 101 and 102, Civil
Practice and Remedies Code.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
this Act. An action that accrued before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the action accrued,
and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.