SB120 - 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.

  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.