HB3501 - Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals prepare and publish a quarterly report on charity care provided by those hospitals.

  89R9909 SRA-D     By: Perez of El Paso H.B. No. 3501       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to a requirement that certain hospitals prepare and   publish a quarterly report on charity care provided by those   hospitals.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety   Code, is amended by adding Section 311.006 to read as follows:           Sec.   311.006.     PUBLIC REPORT OF CHARITY CARE. (a)   In this   section:                 (1)     "Charity care," "financially indigent," and   "medically indigent" have the meanings assigned by Section 311.031.                 (2)     "Public hospital" means a hospital owned,   operated, or leased by a governmental entity.           (b)     Not later than the 30th day after the last day of each   calendar quarter, a public hospital shall prepare and post on the   hospital's Internet website a report that contains, for the period   covered by the report:                 (1)     the number of financially indigent and medically   indigent patients served by the hospital; and                 (2)     the amount of money spent on charity care by the   hospital.          SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Section 311.006, Health and   Safety Code, as added by this Act, a hospital to which that section   applies is not required to prepare and post a report that covers a   calendar quarter that begins before October 1, 2025.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.