TO: | Honorable Helen Giddings, Chair, House Committee on Business & Industry |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB504 by Ogden (Relating to a lien on a cause of action or claim of an individual who receives emergency medical services.), Committee Report 2nd House, As Amended |
If an emergency medical service (EMS) operated by a local government entity located in a county with a population of 100,000 or less were to attach a lien on a cause of action or claim, the EMS would be able to recoup expenses related to providing services for which payment might not otherwise be collected. This would provide a positive fiscal impact for a city- or county-operated EMS, and would vary depending on how frequently and in what amount payment for services were not rendered, not to exceed $1,000 per patient, and the frequency with which a local government EMS were to choose to attach a lien.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 455 Railroad Commission, 501 Department of Health
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LBB Staff: | JK, JRO, GO, JB, DLBa
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