Bill Text: TX HB1914 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled

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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-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 1914

AN ACT
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1914 was passed by the House on May
14, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 92, Nays 51, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1914 was passed by the Senate on May
25, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 11.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor