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TX Health & Safety Code § 260B.0001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities|Chapter 260B - Right to Essential Caregiver Visits for Certain Residents|Section 260B.0001. Definitions

Sec. 260B.0001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Commission" means the Health and Human Services Commission.(2)  "Essential caregiver" means a family member, friend, guardian, or other individual selected by a resident, resident's guardian, or resident's legally authorized representative for in-person visits.(3)  "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.(4)  "Facility" means:(A)  a nursing facility licensed under Chapter 242;(B)  an assisted living facility licensed under Chapter 247; or(C)  an intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability licensed under Chapter 252.(5)  "Program provider" means a person that provides services through the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program in a residence.(6)  "Residence" means a three-person or four-person residence, as defined by the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program billing guidelines, that is leased or owned by a program provider.  The term does not include a host home or companion care.(7)  "Resident" means:(A)  an individual, including a patient, who resides in a facility; or(B)  an individual enrolled in the home and community-based services (HCS) waiver program who resides in a residence.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 531 (S.B. 25), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 260C.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities|Chapter 260C - In-Person Visitation With Religious Counselor|Section 260C.001. Definitions

Sec. 260C.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Health care facility" means:(A)  a home and community support services agency licensed under Chapter 142;(B)  a hospital licensed under Chapter 241;(C)  a nursing facility licensed under Chapter 242;(D)  a continuing care facility regulated under Chapter 246;(E)  an assisted living facility licensed under Chapter 247; or(F)  a special care facility licensed under Chapter 248.(2)  "Public health emergency" means:(A)  a state of disaster or local disaster declared under Chapter 418, Government Code; or(B)  a public health disaster as defined by Section 81.003.(3)  "Religious counselor" means an individual acting substantially in a pastoral or religious capacity to provide spiritual counsel to other individuals.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 519 (S.B. 572), Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 2021.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 260C.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities|Chapter 260C - In-Person Visitation With Religious Counselor|Section 260C.002. In-Person Visitation With Religious Counselor

Sec. 260C.002.  IN-PERSON VISITATION WITH RELIGIOUS COUNSELOR. (a) A health care facility may not prohibit a resident or patient of the facility from receiving in-person visitation with a religious counselor during a public health emergency on the request of:(1)  the patient or resident; or(2)  if the patient or resident is incapacitated, the patient's or resident's legally authorized representative, including a family member of the patient or resident.(b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the executive commissioner by rule shall develop guidelines to assist health care facilities in establishing in-person religious counselor visitation policies and procedures.  The guidelines must:(1)  establish minimum health and safety requirements for in-person visitation with religious counselors;(2)  allow health care facilities to adopt reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on in-person visitation with religious counselors to:(A)  mitigate the spread of a communicable disease; and(B)  address the patient's or resident's medical condition;(3)  provide special consideration to patients and residents who are receiving end-of-life care; and(4)  allow health care facilities to condition in-person visitation with religious counselors on the counselor's compliance with guidelines, policies, and procedures established under this subsection.(c)  A health care facility may prohibit in-person visitation with a religious counselor during a public health emergency if federal law or a federal agency requires the health care facility to prohibit in-person visitation during that period.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 519 (S.B. 572), Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 2021.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 260C.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities|Chapter 260C - Posting of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Information by Certain Facilities|Section 260C.001. Definition

Sec. 260C.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "long-term care facility" means:(1)  a nursing facility licensed under Chapter 242;(2)  an assisted living facility licensed under Chapter 247; or(3)  any other facility providing care to residents who are assisted by the state long-term care ombudsman established under Subchapter F, Chapter 101A, Human Resources Code.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 732 (H.B. 3961), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2022.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 260C.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities|Chapter 260C - Posting of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Information by Certain Facilities|Section 260C.002. Posting of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Information on Internet Website

Sec. 260C.002.  POSTING OF OFFICE OF STATE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN INFORMATION ON INTERNET WEBSITE.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a long-term care facility shall post on the facility's Internet website information about the office of the state long-term care ombudsman established under Subchapter F, Chapter 101A, Human Resources Code, including:(1)  information regarding the office's role as an advocate for residents of long-term care facilities; and(2)  the office's statewide toll-free telephone number.(b)  A long-term care facility:(1)  may comply with this section by posting the required information on the Internet website of the facility's parent company if the facility does not maintain a unique Internet website; and(2)  is not required to comply with this section if the facility and any parent company do not maintain an Internet website.|Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 732 (H.B. 3961), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2022.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.001. Finding; Purpose

Sec. 312.001.  FINDING;  PURPOSE.  (a)  The legislature finds that the clinical education of medical and dental students, interns, residents, and fellows attending a medical and dental unit or a supported medical or dental school and the provision of patient care to public hospitals can be more effectively and economically undertaken if those institutions and hospitals coordinate and cooperate, rather than compete, in their common endeavors.(b)  The purpose of this chapter is to authorize coordination and cooperation between medical and dental units, supported medical or dental schools, and public hospitals and to remove impediments to that coordination and cooperation in order to:(1)  enhance the education of students, interns, residents, and fellows attending a medical and dental unit or a supported medical or dental school; (2)  enhance patient care;  and(3)  avoid any waste of public money.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.002. Definitions

Sec. 312.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(70), eff. April 2, 2015.(2)  Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(70), eff. April 2, 2015.(3)  "Coordinating entity" means a nonprofit corporation under the Texas Nonprofit Corporation Law as described by Section 1.008(d), Business Organizations Code, that is a health organization approved and certified by the Texas Medical Board under Chapter 162, Occupations Code.(3-a)  "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.(4)  "Medical and dental unit" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.(5)  "Public hospital" means a hospital, clinic, or other facility for the provision of health care or dental care that is owned or operated by the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state, including a hospital district or authority.(6)  "Supported medical or dental school" means a medical school or dental school organized as a nonprofit corporation that is under contract with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to provide educational services under Subchapter D, Chapter 61, Education Code.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 14.791, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0849, eff. April 2, 2015.Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1639(70), eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.003 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.003. Agreement Required

Sec. 312.003.  AGREEMENT REQUIRED.  This chapter applies only if the medical and dental unit or supported medical or dental school agrees, either directly or through a coordinating entity, to provide or cause to be provided medical, dental, or other patient care or services or to perform or cause to be performed medical, dental, or clinical education, training, or research activities in a coordinated or cooperative manner in a public or nonprofit hospital.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.Amended by: Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 726 (S.B. 1066), Sec. 2, eff. June 12, 2017.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.004 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.004. Contracts for Coordination or Cooperation

Sec. 312.004.  CONTRACTS FOR COORDINATION OR COOPERATION.  (a)  Medical and dental units, supported medical or dental schools, coordinating entities, and public hospitals may make and perform contracts among each other for the coordinated or cooperative clinical education of the students, interns, residents, and fellows enrolled at the units or schools.(b)  Medical and dental units and supported medical or dental schools may undertake coordination or cooperation of clinical education directly or through a coordinating entity.(c)  A medical and dental unit, a supported medical or dental school, and a coordinating entity may contract with the owner or operator of a public hospital for the clinical education of students, interns, residents, and fellows enrolled at the unit or school.(d)  The contracting parties may determine the terms of and the consideration for a contract authorized under this section.(e)  The contract may provide for the coordinated, cooperative, or exclusive assignment of the interns, residents, fellows, faculty, and associated health care professionals of the participating medical and dental units and supported medical or dental schools to provide or perform health or dental services or research at a public hospital.(f)  Coordinated or cooperative activities authorized under this section may be performed by or on behalf of one or more of the units, schools, or entities involved.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.005 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.005. Approval of Contracts

Sec. 312.005.  APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS.  (a)  To be effective, a contract under Section 312.004 must be submitted to the department.(b)   The department shall approve the contract if the contract furthers the purposes of this chapter.(c)  The department may disapprove a contract only after notice to all parties and a hearing.(d)  The department may not modify a contract.(e)  The contract takes effect:(1)  when it is approved by the department; or(2)  on the 31st day after the date on which the contract is filed with the department by a medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity that is a party to the contract, if the department does not approve or disapprove the contract within 30 days after the date on which the contract is filed.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0850, eff. April 2, 2015.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.006 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.006. Limitation on Liability

Sec. 312.006.  LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.  (a)  A medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity engaged in coordinated or cooperative medical or dental clinical education under Section 312.004, including patient care and the provision or performance of health or dental services or research at a public hospital, is not liable for its acts and omissions in connection with those activities except to the extent and up to the maximum amount of liability of state government under Section 101.023(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code, for the acts and omissions of a governmental unit of state government under Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.(b)  The limitation on liability provided by this section applies regardless of whether the medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity is a "governmental unit" as defined by Section 101.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 312.007 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 312 - Medical and Dental Clinical Education in Public Hospitals|Section 312.007. Individual Liability

Sec. 312.007.  INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY.  (a)  A medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity is a state agency, and a director, trustee, officer, intern, resident, fellow, faculty member, or other associated health care professional or employee of a medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity is an employee of a state agency for purposes of Chapter 104, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and for purposes of determining the liability, if any, of the person for the person's acts or omissions while engaged in the coordinated or cooperative activities of the unit, school, or entity.(b)  A judgment in an action or settlement of a claim against a medical and dental unit, supported medical or dental school, or coordinating entity under Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, bars any action involving the same subject matter by the claimant against a director, trustee, officer, intern, resident, fellow, faculty member, or other associated health care professional or employee of the unit, school, or entity whose act or omission gave rise to the claim as if the person were an employee of a governmental unit against which the claim was asserted as provided under Section 101.106, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.(c)  A resident engaged in graduate medical education in a public or nonprofit hospital in association with a medical and dental unit is an employee of a state agency regardless of whether the resident receives a stipend or other payment from the medical and dental unit for services performed as a resident.|Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.Amended by: Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 726 (S.B. 1066), Sec. 3, eff. June 12, 2017.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 313.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 313 - Consent to Medical Treatment Act|Section 313.001. Short Title

Sec. 313.001.  SHORT TITLE.  This chapter may be cited as the Consent to Medical Treatment Act.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 313.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 313 - Consent to Medical Treatment Act|Section 313.002. Definitions

Sec. 313.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:(1)  "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older or a person under 18 years of age who has had the disabilities of minority removed.(2)  "Attending physician" means the physician with primary responsibility for a patient's treatment and care.(3)  "Decision-making capacity" means the ability to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of a decision regarding medical treatment and the ability to reach an informed decision in the matter.(3-a)  "Home and community support services agency" means a facility licensed under Chapter 142.(4)  "Hospital" means a facility licensed under Chapter 241.(5)  "Incapacitated" means lacking the ability, based on reasonable medical judgment, to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of a treatment decision, including the significant benefits and harms of and reasonable alternatives to any proposed treatment decision.(6)  "Medical treatment" means a health care treatment, service, or procedure designed to maintain or treat a patient's physical or mental condition, as well as preventative care.(7)  "Nursing home" means a facility licensed under Chapter 242.(8)  "Patient" means a person who:(A)  is admitted to a hospital;(B)  is residing in a nursing home;(C)  is receiving services from a home and community support services agency; or(D)  is an inmate of a county or municipal jail.(9)  "Physician" means:(A)  a physician licensed by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners;  or(B)  a physician with proper credentials who holds a commission in a branch of the armed services of the United States and who is serving on active duty in this state.(10)  "Surrogate decision-maker" means an individual with decision-making capacity who is identified as the person who has authority to consent to medical treatment on behalf of an incapacitated patient in need of medical treatment.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1271 (H.B. 3473), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 253 (H.B. 1128), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 313.003 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 313 - Consent to Medical Treatment Act|Section 313.003. Exceptions and Application

Sec. 313.003.  EXCEPTIONS AND APPLICATION.  (a)  This chapter does not apply to:(1)  a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from qualified terminal or irreversible patients under Subchapter B, Chapter 166;(2)  a health care decision made under a medical power of attorney under Subchapter D, Chapter 166, or under Subtitle P, Title 2, Estates Code;(3)  consent to medical treatment of minors under Chapter 32, Family Code;(4)  consent for emergency care under Chapter 773;(5)  hospital patient transfers under Chapter 241; or(6)  a patient's legal guardian who has the authority to make a decision regarding the patient's medical treatment.(b)  This chapter does not authorize a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.  Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.Amended by: Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 324 (S.B. 1488), Sec. 22.045, eff. September 1, 2017.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 313.005 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 313 - Consent to Medical Treatment Act|Section 313.005. Prerequisites for Consent

Sec. 313.005.  PREREQUISITES FOR CONSENT.  (a)  If an adult patient of a home and community support services agency or in a hospital or nursing home, or an adult inmate of a county or municipal jail, is comatose, incapacitated, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication and, according to reasonable medical judgment, is in need of medical treatment, the attending physician shall describe the:(1)  patient's comatose state, incapacity, or other mental or physical inability to communicate in the patient's medical record; and(2)  proposed medical treatment in the patient's medical record.(b)  The attending physician shall make a reasonably diligent effort to contact or cause to be contacted the persons eligible to serve as surrogate decision-makers.  Efforts to contact those persons shall be recorded in detail in the patient's medical record.(c)  If a surrogate decision-maker consents to medical treatment on behalf of the patient, the attending physician shall record the date and time of the consent and sign the patient's medical record.  The surrogate decision-maker shall countersign the patient's medical record or execute an informed consent form.(d)  A surrogate decision-maker's consent to medical treatment that is not made in person shall be reduced to writing in the patient's medical record, signed by the home and community support services agency, hospital, or nursing home staff member receiving the consent, and countersigned in the patient's medical record or on an informed consent form by the surrogate decision-maker as soon as possible.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1271 (H.B. 3473), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2007.Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 253 (H.B. 1128), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2011.|
TX Health & Safety Code § 313.006 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Health and Safety Code|Title 4 - Health Facilities|Subtitle F - Powers and Duties of Hospitals|Chapter 313 - Consent to Medical Treatment Act|Section 313.006. Liability for Medical Treatment Costs

Sec. 313.006.  LIABILITY FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT COSTS.  Liability for the cost of medical treatment provided as a result of consent to medical treatment by a surrogate decision-maker is the same as the liability for that cost if the medical treatment were provided as a result of the patient's own consent to the treatment.|Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 407, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.|