89R9909 SRA-D
By: Perez of El Paso H.B. No. 3501
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that certain hospitals prepare and
publish a quarterly report on charity care provided by those
hospitals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 311.006 to read as follows:
Sec. 311.006. PUBLIC REPORT OF CHARITY CARE. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Charity care," "financially indigent," and
"medically indigent" have the meanings assigned by Section 311.031.
(2) "Public hospital" means a hospital owned,
operated, or leased by a governmental entity.
(b) Not later than the 30th day after the last day of each
calendar quarter, a public hospital shall prepare and post on the
hospital's Internet website a report that contains, for the period
covered by the report:
(1) the number of financially indigent and medically
indigent patients served by the hospital; and
(2) the amount of money spent on charity care by the
hospital.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 311.006, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a hospital to which that section
applies is not required to prepare and post a report that covers a
calendar quarter that begins before October 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.