Bill Text: TX SB120 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such a physician.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB120 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB120-Introduced.html

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89R2506 SRA-D
By: Hall S.B. No. 120

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a
physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and
the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such
a physician.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 241, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 241.1013 to read as follows:
Sec. 241.1013. SERVICES PROVIDED BY PHYSICIAN NOT ON
MEDICAL STAFF; LIMIT ON HOSPITAL LIABILITY. (a) A hospital shall
grant a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical
staff temporary privileges to the extent necessary to provide care
or treatment to a patient at the hospital if the patient requests
care or treatment from that physician and an established
patient-practitioner relationship exists between the patient and
that physician.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a hospital is not liable
to a patient or another person for damages resulting from the care
or treatment provided to the patient at the hospital by a physician
described by Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. Section 241.1013(b), Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.