Bill Text: TX HB1403 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the definition of health care liability claim for the purposes of certain laws governing those claims.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1403 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1403-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Sheets, Turner of Tarrant, Fallon H.B. No. 1403
(Senate Sponsor - Estes)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 14, 2015;
May 14, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of health care liability claim for the
purposes of certain laws governing those claims.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 74.001(a)(13), Civil Practice and
Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
(13) "Health care liability claim" means a cause of
action against a health care provider or physician for treatment,
lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted
standards of medical care, or health care, or safety or
professional or administrative services directly related to health
care, which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant,
whether the claimant's claim or cause of action sounds in tort or
contract. The term does not include a cause of action described by
Section 406.033(a) or 408.001(b), Labor Code, against an employer
by an employee or the employee's surviving spouse or heir.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the cause of action
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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