Texas 2019 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1482 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/05/2019

                    86R6591 SRA-D
 By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1482


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the availability online of hospital trauma response
 revenue code data.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Chapter 108, Health and Safety Code, is amended
 by adding Section 108.0093 to read as follows:
 Sec. 108.0093.  INTERNET POSTING OF CERTAIN HOSPITAL DATA.
 Not later than January 1 of each year, the department shall post on
 the department's Internet website hospital trauma response revenue
 code data collected under Section 108.009.  The posted data must
 include information for the entire state, each public health
 region, and each hospital.
 SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.