Bill Text: TX HB3151 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited health care discrimination based on vaccination status; providing a civil penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Public Health [HB3151 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3151-Introduced.html
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| By: Schatzline | H.B. No. 3151 | |
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| relating to prohibited health care discrimination based on | ||
| vaccination status; providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 161.01095 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.01095. PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION BASED ON | ||
| VACCINATION STATUS; CIVIL PENALTY. (a) In this section, "health | ||
| care provider" means an individual or facility licensed, certified, | ||
| or otherwise authorized to administer health care, for profit or | ||
| otherwise, in the ordinary course of business or professional | ||
| practice. The term includes a physician. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a health care provider | ||
| may not, based on an individual's vaccination status, deny or | ||
| refuse to provide the individual a health care treatment, | ||
| procedure, or service. | ||
| (c) A health care provider who violates this section is | ||
| subject to a civil penalty of $50,000 for each violation. The | ||
| attorney general may bring an action to recover the civil penalty | ||
| and may recover attorney's fees and costs incurred in bringing the | ||
| action. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
