Bill Text: TX HB1914 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the civil liability of a children's isolation unit in a hospital.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1914 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1914-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the civil liability of a children's isolation unit in a hospital.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1914 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1914-Introduced.html
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| By: Schofield | H.B. No. 1914 | |
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| relating to the civil liability of a children's isolation unit in a | ||
| hospital. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter L to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER L. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF CHILDREN'S | ||
| ISOLATION UNITS | ||
| Sec. 241.351. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "children's | ||
| isolation unit" means an isolation unit in a hospital licensed | ||
| under this chapter that is designed to provide health care services | ||
| to children with highly contagious infectious diseases. | ||
| Sec. 241.352. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF CHILDREN'S | ||
| ISOLATION UNIT. A children's isolation unit that has instituted | ||
| isolation protocols is not liable for any claim, damage, or loss | ||
| arising from the provision of health care services to children with | ||
| highly contagious diseases, unless the act or omission proximately | ||
| causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes gross negligence or | ||
| wilful misconduct. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
