Bill Text: TX SB1326 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain students, interns, residents, and fellows receiving a clinical education at public or nonprofit hospitals receive an annual comprehensive health examination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1326 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1326-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1326 |
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relating to a requirement that certain students, interns, | ||
residents, and fellows receiving a clinical education at public or | ||
nonprofit hospitals receive an annual comprehensive health | ||
examination. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 312.004(d), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the [ |
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contracting parties may determine the terms of and the | ||
consideration for a contract authorized under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 312, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 312.0045 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 312.0045. REQUIRED CONTRACT PROVISION: HEALTH | ||
EXAMINATION. A contract under Section 312.004 must require each | ||
student, intern, resident, and fellow who is enrolled at a | ||
contracting medical or dental unit or supported medical or dental | ||
school and who is receiving a clinical education at a public or | ||
nonprofit hospital to undergo at least one comprehensive health | ||
examination each year. The public or nonprofit hospital at which | ||
the student, intern, resident, or fellow is receiving the clinical | ||
education must offer to provide the examination at no charge and | ||
provide the student, intern, resident, or fellow with a day off on | ||
which to receive the examination. A public or nonprofit hospital | ||
may not reduce the amount of the compensation paid by the hospital | ||
to the student, intern, resident, or fellow, if any, for time off | ||
taken for the examination. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A contract entered into before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was | ||
entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |