Bill Text: TX HB3529 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to personal assistive mobility device protections for patients receiving emergency medical services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Public Health [HB3529 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3529-Introduced.html
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| By: Manuel | H.B. No. 3529 | |
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| relating to personal assistive mobility device protections for | ||
| patients receiving emergency medical services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 773.0125 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 773.0125. PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICE | ||
| PROTECTIONS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Hospital" means a general hospital, a pediatric | ||
| and adolescent hospital, or a special hospital, as those terms are | ||
| defined by Section 241.003. | ||
| (2) "Personal assistive mobility device" means a | ||
| wheelchair or a motorized assistive mobility device, including a | ||
| motorized wheelchair. | ||
| (b) This section applies to the transport, custody, and | ||
| control of a personal assistive mobility device of a patient who is | ||
| receiving emergency medical services while the device is: | ||
| (1) in an emergency medical services vehicle; | ||
| (2) being transported or controlled by emergency | ||
| medical services personnel, including volunteers; | ||
| (3) being transported or controlled by an emergency | ||
| medical services provider; | ||
| (4) under the custody or control of a hospital; or | ||
| (5) under the custody or control of an individual who | ||
| is providing the emergency medical services for an emergency | ||
| medical services and trauma care system. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules to: | ||
| (1) ensure the safety and security of and the | ||
| protection of property rights in a patient's personal assistive | ||
| mobility device while the patient is receiving emergency medical | ||
| services as described by Subsection (b); and | ||
| (2) require each person or entity that provides the | ||
| emergency medical services to adopt procedures, in accordance with | ||
| commission rules, for the: | ||
| (A) safe and secure storage of the patient's | ||
| personal assistive mobility device for the duration of the service | ||
| provision; | ||
| (B) return to the patient of the patient's | ||
| personal assistive mobility device at the time the service | ||
| provision concludes; and | ||
| (C) safe and secure transfer of the patient's | ||
| personal assistive mobility device from one person providing | ||
| emergency medical services as described by Subsection (b) to | ||
| another person providing those services, including the transfer of | ||
| a personal assistive mobility device for a patient who is | ||
| transported by air. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 required by Section | ||
| 773.0125, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
