Bill Text: TX SB992 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of telehealth services by health professionals located outside of this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-30 - Left pending in committee [SB992 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB992-Introduced.html
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| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 992 | |
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| relating to the provision of telehealth services by health | ||
| professionals located outside of this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 111, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 111.009 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 111.009. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOCATED OUTSIDE OF STATE. | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a health professional located | ||
| outside of this state who holds an active and unencumbered license | ||
| issued by another state may provide to a patient located in this | ||
| state a telehealth service if the health professional is authorized | ||
| to provide the service by the state in which the health professional | ||
| is licensed. | ||
| (b) The standard of care for a health professional who | ||
| provides a telehealth service to a patient under this section is the | ||
| same as the standard of care for a health professional who provides | ||
| an in-person health care service to a patient. | ||
| (c) A practitioner-patient relationship may be established | ||
| through a telehealth service provided under this section. | ||
| (d) An agency with regulatory authority over a health | ||
| professional shall adopt rules to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
