bill requiring public hospitals to report charity care quarterly

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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.