88R9062 MPF-D
By: Blanco S.B. No. 1326
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that certain students, interns,
residents, and fellows receiving a clinical education at public or
nonprofit hospitals receive an annual comprehensive health
examination.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 312.004(d), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the [The]
contracting parties may determine the terms of and the
consideration for a contract authorized under this section.
SECTION 2. Chapter 312, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 312.0045 to read as follows:
Sec. 312.0045. REQUIRED CONTRACT PROVISION: HEALTH
EXAMINATION. A contract under Section 312.004 must require each
student, intern, resident, and fellow who is enrolled at a
contracting medical or dental unit or supported medical or dental
school and who is receiving a clinical education at a public or
nonprofit hospital to undergo at least one comprehensive health
examination each year. The public or nonprofit hospital at which
the student, intern, resident, or fellow is receiving the clinical
education must offer to provide the examination at no charge and
provide the student, intern, resident, or fellow with a day off on
which to receive the examination. A public or nonprofit hospital
may not reduce the amount of the compensation paid by the hospital
to the student, intern, resident, or fellow, if any, for time off
taken for the examination.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this
Act. A contract entered into before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was
entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.