Bill Text: TX SB1755 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the status of certain medical residents and fellows as governmental employees for purposes of the Texas Tort Claims Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB1755 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1755-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Creighton S.B. No. 1755
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2019; March 14, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 16, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 16, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the status of certain medical residents and fellows as
governmental employees for purposes of the Texas Tort Claims Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 101, Civil Practice and
Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 101.004 to read as
follows:
Sec. 101.004. STATUS OF MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS. For
purposes of this chapter, a resident or fellow in a graduate medical
training program for physicians that is sponsored by a governmental
unit, including a medical and dental unit as defined by Section
61.003, Education Code, is considered to be an employee of a
governmental unit regardless of the method or source of payment of
the resident or fellow.
SECTION 2. 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, 2019.
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