83R9821 SCL-F
By: Deuell S.B. No. 1765
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections at
health care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 98.103(a), (b), and (c), Health and
Safety Code, 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; [.]
(8) [(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;
(9) [(2)] ventricular shunt procedures; and
(10) [(3)] spinal surgery with instrumentation.
(b) [(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; and
(3) the incidence of specific infections designated by
executive commissioner rule.
SECTION 2. (a) The executive commissioner of the Health and
Human Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to
implement Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, as amended by
this Act, not later than January 1, 2014.
(b) Section 98.103, Health and Safety Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a report for an infection occurring on or
after the effective date of this Act. A report for an infection
occurring before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law as it existed on the date the infection occurred, and that law
is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.