By: Janek S.B. No. 555
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for certain medical treatment consent
forms.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 74.103, Civil Practice
and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The panel shall prepare separate lists of those medical
treatments and surgical procedures that do and do not require
disclosure and, for those treatments and procedures that do require
disclosure, shall establish the degree of disclosure required and
the form in which the disclosure will be made. Each provision of a
disclosure form prepared under this subsection must be made
available in English and Spanish.
SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Medical Disclosure Panel shall
provide new forms and revise existing forms according to the
requirements of Subsection (b), Section 74.103, Civil Practice and
Remedies Code, as amended by this Act, not later than January 1,
2006.
(b) This Act applies only to those medical treatments and
surgical procedures determined by the Texas Medical Disclosure
Panel to require disclosure of the risks and hazards to the patient,
or a person authorized to consent for the patient, that are
performed at least 90 days after the date the notice of the adoption
of the form required to be distributed under Subsection (b),
Section 74.103, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as amended by
this Act, is published in the Texas Register.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.