By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 203
Nelson, West
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections in
certain health care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (b), and (c), Section 98.103,
Health and Safety Code, as added by Chapter 359 (S.B. 288), Acts of
the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as
follows:
(a) A health care facility, other than a pediatric and
adolescent hospital, shall report to the department the incidence
of surgical site infections, including the causative pathogen if
the infection is laboratory-confirmed, occurring in the following
procedures:
(1) colon surgeries;
(2) hip arthroplasties;
(3) knee arthroplasties;
(4) abdominal hysterectomies;
(5) vaginal hysterectomies;
(6) coronary artery bypass grafts; and
(7) vascular procedures.
(b) A pediatric and adolescent hospital shall report the
incidence of surgical site infections, including the causative
pathogen if the infection is laboratory-confirmed, occurring in the
following procedures to the department:
(1) cardiac procedures, excluding thoracic cardiac
procedures;
(2) ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures; and
(3) spinal surgery with instrumentation.
(c) A general hospital shall report the following to the
department:
(1) the incidence of laboratory-confirmed central
line-associated primary bloodstream infections, including the
causative pathogen, occurring in any special care setting in the
hospital; and
(2) the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus
occurring in any pediatric inpatient unit in the hospital.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.