Texas Property Code
§ 55.004 — AMOUNT OF LIEN
PR § 55.004Title 5. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND LIENS · Part B. LIENS · Ch. 55. HOSPITAL AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES LIENS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section, "emergency hospital care" means health care services provided in a hospital to evaluate, stabilize, and treat a serious medical problem of recent onset or severity, including severe pain that would lead a prudent layperson possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health to believe that the condition, illness, or injury is of such a nature that failure to obtain immediate medical care would in all reasonable probability:
(1)seriously jeopardize the patient's health;
(2)seriously impair one or more bodily functions;
(3)seriously harm an organ or other part of the body;
(4)cause serious disfigurement; or
(5)in the case of a pregnant woman, seriously jeopardize the health of the fetus.
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Legislative history
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 728 (H.B. 2018), Sec. 23.001(79), eff. September 1, 2005. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 862 (H.B. 2929), Sec. 2, eff. June 10, 2019. Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 812 (H.B. 2064), Sec. 1, eff. June 16, 2021.