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SB672 • 2025

Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

Healthcare
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Hughes
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

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Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  7. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  14. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#3832

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  18. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  19. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  20. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  21. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  22. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  23. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  24. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  25. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  26. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  27. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  28. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  29. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Health

  30. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  31. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  32. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  33. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  34. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  35. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  36. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  37. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  38. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  39. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  40. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  41. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  42. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  43. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  44. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  45. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  46. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  47. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  48. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  49. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  50. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  51. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  52. 2024-12-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  53. 2024-12-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 672 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 672

AN ACT

relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary

of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human

Services Commission.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 311, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 311.025 to read as follows:

Sec.

311.025.

SUMMARY OF CERTAIN PARTS OF EMERGENCY

OPERATIONS PLAN. (a)

In this section:

(1)

"Commission" means the Health and Human Services

Commission.

(2)

"Emergency operations plan" means a hospital's

process for temporarily routing patients in need of emergency

services to other hospitals or health facilities during a period

when:

(A)

the hospital's capacity to provide emergency

services to those patients is significantly diminished; and

(B)

the patients, if routed to the hospital,

would likely receive substantially delayed care resulting in worse

health outcomes than would otherwise occur were the patient routed

to another hospital or health facility.

(3)

"Hospital" means a hospital licensed under Chapter

241.

(b)

This section applies only to a hospital that has an

emergency department or otherwise regularly provides emergency

services.

(c)

A hospital to which this section applies shall submit to

the commission a written summary of the part of the hospital's

emergency operations plan that addresses diversions from the

hospital's emergency department in the event that the hospital

experiences a cyber attack or an electrical power outage.

(d)

If a hospital to which this section applies makes

changes to the part of the plan described by Subsection (c), the

hospital shall update the previously submitted summary and submit

the updated summary to the commission not later than the 30th day

after the date the changes to the plan are adopted by the hospital's

governing body or otherwise approved by the appropriate hospital

administrator.

(e)

A summary submitted to the commission under this section

is confidential and excepted from public disclosure under Chapter

552, Government Code.

SECTION 2. A hospital to which Section 311.025, Health and

Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies shall comply with the

requirements of that section not later than December 1, 2025.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 672 passed the Senate on

May 9, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 672 passed the House on

May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 26, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor