By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1603
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to risk management at institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.053, Business and Commerce Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
(i) For a breach of system security that involves protected
health information, as that term is defined by the federal Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Privacy
Standards, a notice of the breach provided pursuant to the federal
notification in the case of breach of unsecured protected health
information (45 CFR Part 164, Subpart D) satisfies the requirements
of Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Section 312.003, Health and Safety Code,
isamended to read as follows:
Sec. 312.003. AGREEMENT REQUIRED. This chapter applies
only if the [a] medical and dental unit or [and a] supported medical
or dental school agrees [agree], 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 hospital.
SECTION 3. Section 312.007, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) For purposes of this section, a director, trustee,
officer, intern, resident, fellow, faculty member, or other
associated health care professional of the medical and dental unit,
the supported medical or dental school, or coordinating agency is
considered an employee without regard to whether the individual is
in the paid service of the unit, school, or agency.
SECTION 4. Section 1601.004(a), Insurance Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) In this chapter, "dependent," with respect to an
individual eligible to participate in the uniform program under
Section 1601.101 or 1601.102, means the individual's:
(1) spouse;
(2) unmarried child younger than 26 [25] years of age;
and
(3) child of any age who the system determines lives
with or has the child's care provided by the individual on a regular
basis if the child is mentally [retarded] or physically
incapacitated to the extent that the child is dependent on the
individual for care or support, as determined by the system, and:
(A) the child is at least 26 years of age, the
child's coverage under this chapter has not lapsed, and the child
was enrolled as a participant in the health benefits coverage under
the uniform program on the date of the child's 26th birthday; or
(B) as to a child of an individual eligible to
participate as an employee under Section 1601.101, at the time of
the individual's initial enrollment in health benefits coverage
under the uniform program the child is at least 26 years of age and
is enrolled in comparable coverage, as determined by the system,
under the individual's previous health benefits coverage.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.