83R7094 KKR-D
By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 3556
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the licensing and regulation of emergency medical
services providers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.05711 to read as follows:
Sec. 773.05711. NONEMERGENCY AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION
PROVIDER. (a) In addition to the requirements for obtaining or
renewing an emergency medical services provider license under this
subchapter, a person who applies for a license or for a renewal of a
license to provide only nonemergency ambulance transportation
services must:
(1) provide the department with a letter of credit
issued by a federally insured bank or savings institution in the
amount of $100,000 and a surety bond in the amount of $50,000; and
(2) submit for approval by the department the name and
contact information of the provider's administrator of record.
(b) The administrator of record:
(1) may not be employed or otherwise compensated by
another private for-profit emergency medical services provider;
(2) must meet the qualifications required for an
emergency medical technician or other health care professional
license or certification issued by this state; and
(3) must submit to a criminal history record check at
the applicant's expense.
(c) Section 773.0415 does not apply to information an
administrator of record is required to provide under this section.
(d) An administrator of record approved by the department
under Subsection (a) must complete at least eight hours of
continuing education every two years following initial approval.
The executive commissioner shall recognize, prepare, or administer
continuing education programs for administrators of record, which
must include information about changes in law and department rules
that affect emergency medical services providers.
(e) An emergency medical services provider that is directly
operated by a governmental entity is exempt from the this section.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.06141 to read as follows:
Sec. 773.06141. SUSPENSION, REVOCATION, OR DENIAL OF
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDER LICENSE. The commissioner may
suspend, revoke, or deny an emergency medical services provider
license on the grounds that the provider's administrator of record,
employee, or other representative:
(1) has been convicted of, or placed on deferred
adjudication community supervision or deferred disposition for, an
offense that directly relates to the duties and responsibilities of
the administrator, employee, or representative, other than an
offense for which points are assigned under Section 708.052,
Transportation Code;
(2) has been convicted of or placed on deferred
adjudication community supervision or deferred disposition for an
offense, including:
(A) an offense listed in Sections 3g(a)(1)(A)
through (H), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
(B) an offense, other than an offense described
by Subdivision (1), for which the person is subject to registration
under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
(3) has been convicted of Medicare or Medicaid fraud,
has been excluded from participation in the state Medicaid program,
or has a hold on payment for reimbursement under the state Medicaid
program under Subchapter C, Chapter 531, Government Code.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for approval or renewal of an emergency medical
services provider license submitted to the Department of State
Health Services on or after the effective date of this Act. An
application submitted before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.