Texas Business & Commerce Code
§ 17.464 — UNCONSCIONABLE PRICE FOR CARE AT EMERGENCY FACILITY
BC § 17.464Title 2. COMPETITION AND TRADE PRACTICES · Ch. 17. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES · Art. E. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Emergency care" means health care services provided in an emergency facility to evaluate and stabilize medical conditions of a recent onset and severity, including severe pain, that would lead a prudent layperson possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health to believe that the individual's condition, sickness, or injury is of such a nature that failure to get immediate medical care could:
(A)place the individual's health in serious jeopardy;
(B)result in serious impairment to bodily functions;
(C)result in serious dysfunction of a bodily organ or part;
(D)result in serious disfigurement; or
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1090 (H.B. 1941), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.