Bill Text: TX HB4455 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 4455 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of mental health services through a telemedicine medical service or telehealth service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4455 Detail]

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	By: Miller (Senate Sponsor - Campbell)	H.B. No. 4455
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2019;
	May 10, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
	Human Services; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the provision of mental health services through a
	telemedicine medical service or telehealth service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Occupations Code, is
	amended by adding Chapter 113 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 113. MENTAL HEALTH TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH SERVICES
	Sec. 113.001. DEFINITIONS. The definitions provided by
	Section 111.001 apply to this chapter.
	Sec. 113.002. PATIENT LOCATED OUTSIDE OF STATE.
	Notwithstanding any other law, a health professional may provide a
	mental health service that is within the scope of the
	professional's license, certification, or authorization through
	the use of a telemedicine medical service or a telehealth service to
	a patient who is located outside of this state, subject to any
	applicable regulation of the jurisdiction in which the patient is
	located.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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