83S20080 SLB-D
By: Uresti S.B. No. 23
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to applicants for medical staff membership or privileges
who practice at facilities where abortions are performed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 241.101, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows:
(f-1) An applicant for medical staff membership or
privileges may not be denied membership or privileges on the ground
that the applicant practices at a facility where abortions are
performed. A hospital's credentials committee may not consider
whether abortions are performed at a facility at which an applicant
practices in making a decision whether to grant or refuse medical
staff membership or privileges.
SECTION 2. Section 241.101(f-1), Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to an application for medical staff
membership or privileges submitted 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 at the time the
application was submitted, and the former law is continued for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
last day of the legislative session.