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Emergency Health Care Act

Texas · HS · §§ 773.001 to 773.257 · 116 sections

Overview

The Emergency Health Care Act governs the delivery of emergency medical services and prehospital care in Texas, reaching the vehicles used, the personnel who staff them, and the trauma facilities and trauma care systems they connect to. It establishes a licensing and certification regime, setting qualifications for emergency care attendants, emergency medical technicians at each level, and licensed paramedics, as well as for basic life-support, advanced life-support, mobile intensive-care, and specialized service providers, and it backs that regime with minimum standards, training program approval, and a variance process. The act also addresses medical supervision of prehospital care, consent to emergency treatment, limits on civil liability, the administration of epinephrine, and a dedicated funding source, and it provides for coordinated planning through a state plan, designated service delivery areas, area plans, and an advisory council.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 21 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 118 S.W.3d 758 - Miller Ex Rel. Miller v. HCA, INC.

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