Bill Text: TX SB672 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency department diversion plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB672-Introduced.html
| 89R1698 SRA-D | ||
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 672 | |
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| relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary | ||
| of parts of their emergency department diversion plans to the | ||
| Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 311, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 311.025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 311.025. SUMMARY OF CERTAIN PARTS OF EMERGENCY | ||
| DEPARTMENT DIVERSION PLAN. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Diversion plan" means a hospital's process for | ||
| temporarily routing patients in need of emergency services to other | ||
| hospitals or health facilities during a period when: | ||
| (A) the hospital's capacity to provide emergency | ||
| services to those patients is significantly diminished; and | ||
| (B) the patients, if routed to the hospital, | ||
| would likely receive substantially delayed care resulting in worse | ||
| health outcomes than would otherwise occur were the patient routed | ||
| to another hospital or health facility. | ||
| (3) "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under Chapter | ||
| 241. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a hospital that has an | ||
| emergency department or otherwise regularly provides emergency | ||
| services. | ||
| (c) A hospital to which this section applies shall submit to | ||
| the commission a written summary of the part of the hospital's | ||
| diversion plan that addresses diversions from the hospital's | ||
| emergency department in the event that the hospital experiences a | ||
| cyber attack or an electrical power outage. | ||
| (d) If a hospital to which this section applies makes | ||
| changes to the part of the plan described by Subsection (c), the | ||
| hospital shall update the previously submitted summary and submit | ||
| the updated summary to the commission not later than the 30th day | ||
| after the date the changes to the plan are adopted by the hospital's | ||
| governing body or otherwise approved by the appropriate hospital | ||
| administrator. | ||
| (e) A summary submitted to the commission under this section | ||
| is confidential and excepted from public disclosure under Chapter | ||
| 552, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. A hospital to which Section 311.025, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies shall comply with the | ||
| requirements of that section not later than December 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
