Tex. Health & Safety Code § 191.012 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEATH INFORMATION PROVIDED TO CERTAIN HOSPITALS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under Chapter 241.
(2) "Trauma facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003.
(b) The department shall implement an efficient and effective procedure to provide death information to a hospital designated as a Level I trauma facility to assist with the hospital's participation in the Medicaid managed care program operated under Chapter 540, Government Code.
(c) The procedure implemented under Subsection (b) at a minimum must provide the following information for each deceased person for whom a death certificate is filed with a local registrar in this state:
(1) the county of residence of the deceased;
(2) the date of birth of the deceased; and
(3) the full name of the deceased.
(d) Subject to available resources, the department may use the procedure implemented under Subsection (b) to provide death information to a hospital that is not designated as a Level I trauma facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 833 (S.B. 1467), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
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