Hall Bill Lets Patients Bring Their Own Doctor Into Hospitals

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89R2506 SRA-D

By: Hall
S.B. No. 120

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a

physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and

the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such

a physician.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 241, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 241.1013 to read as follows:

Sec. 241.1013. SERVICES PROVIDED BY PHYSICIAN NOT ON

MEDICAL STAFF; LIMIT ON HOSPITAL LIABILITY. (a) A hospital shall

grant a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical

staff temporary privileges to the extent necessary to provide care

or treatment to a patient at the hospital if the patient requests

care or treatment from that physician and an established

patient-practitioner relationship exists between the patient and

that physician.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a hospital is not liable

to a patient or another person for damages resulting from the care

or treatment provided to the patient at the hospital by a physician

described by Subsection (a).

SECTION 2. Section 241.1013(b), Health and Safety Code, as

added by this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on

or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.