88R10621 BEE-D
By: Price, Thompson of Harris, Guillen, H.B. No. 1771
Oliverson, Jetton
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1771:
By: Klick C.S.H.B. No. 1771
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain records of a health professional providing a
telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or
telehealth service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 111.004, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
(c) Each agency with regulatory authority over a health
professional providing a telemedicine medical service,
teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service shall adopt
rules necessary to standardize formats for and retention of records
related to a patient's consent to:
(1) treatment;
(2) data collection; and
(3) data sharing.
(d) Rules adopted under Subsection (c) must:
(1) as applicable, address the specific consent
documentation required for:
(A) telemedicine medical services;
(B) teledentistry dental services; or
(C) telehealth services; and
(2) include provisions, based on the appropriate
standard of care, for consent documentation in an audio-only
format.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.