|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the reporting of health care associated infections. |
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
SECTION 1. Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, is |
|
amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: |
|
(e) A report made under this section must specify whether |
|
the infection resulted in the death of the patient while |
|
hospitalized. |
|
SECTION 2. Section 98.106(a), Health and Safety Code, is |
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
(a) The department shall compile and make available to the |
|
public a summary, by health care facility, of: |
|
(1) the infections reported by facilities under |
|
Section 98.103, including whether the infections resulted in the |
|
death of the patient while hospitalized; and |
|
(2) the preventable adverse events reported by |
|
facilities under Section 98.1045. |
|
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date |
|
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission shall adopt the rules and procedures necessary |
|
to implement the changes made by this Act to Subchapter C, Chapter |
|
98, Health and Safety Code. |
|
SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies to |
|
a report required under Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, |
|
that is made in a reporting period beginning on or after March 1, |
|
2014. A report made under Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, |
|
during a reporting period that begins before March 1, 2014, is |
|
covered by the law in existence on the date the reporting period |
|
began, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
(b) The change in law made by this Act applies to a |
|
departmental summary published under Section 98.106, Health and |
|
Safety Code, that covers a reporting period beginning on or after |
|
March 1, 2014. A departmental summary that covers a reporting |
|
period that begins before March 1, 2014, is covered by the law in |
|
existence on the date the reporting period began, and the former law |
|
is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
|
|
|
* * * * * |