TITLE: Relating to the civil liability of a hospital with a children's isolation unit and of certain hospital employees.

SUMMARY: Relating to the civil liability of a hospital with a children's isolation unit and of certain hospital employees.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the civil liability of a hospital with a children's isolation unit and of certain hospital employees. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subchapter Kto read as follows: SUBCHAPTER K. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF HOSPITALS WITH CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNIT Sec. 241.301. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "children's isolation unit" means an isolation unit in a hospital licensed under this chapter that is designed to provide health care services to children with highly contagious infectious diseases. Sec. 241.302. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF HOSPITAL WITH CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNIT. A hospital with a children's isolation unit that has instituted isolation protocols and a physician or employee of that hospital are not liable for any claim, damage, or loss arising from the provision of health care services in the children's isolation unit to children with highly contagious diseases, unless the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes gross negligence or wilful misconduct. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.