Tex. Health & Safety Code § 773.114 · Subchapter E. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND TRAUMA CARE SYSTEMS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each emergency medical services and trauma care system must have:
(1) local or regional medical control for all field care and transportation, consistent with geographic and current communications capability;
(2) triage, transport, and transfer protocols; and
(3) one or more hospitals categorized according to trauma care capabilities using standards adopted by department rule.
(b) This subchapter does not prohibit a health care facility from providing services that it is authorized to provide under a license issued to the facility by the department.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 267, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Redesignated from Health & Safety Code Sec. 773.084 by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 605, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1557, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.773.htm
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