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Texas Hospital Licensing Law

Texas · HS · §§ 241.001 to 241.406 · 86 sections

Overview

This act establishes a licensing scheme for hospitals, requiring a facility to hold a state-issued license to operate and directing the responsible agency to adopt rules and minimum standards governing hospital operations and the care they provide. It sets out the application, issuance, and fee process, grants inspection authority, and provides graduated enforcement — denial, suspension, probation, or revocation of a license, emergency orders, injunctions, and civil, criminal, and administrative penalties, with a private right of action for a person harmed. Beyond licensure, it imposes substantive operating requirements on licensed hospitals, addressing matters such as personnel and staff identification, patient transfers and transfer agreements, workplace safety and protection against discrimination and retaliation, required public signage, certain obstetric and end-of-life practices, and the hospital's authority over and relationships with its medical staff and physicians.

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In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 52 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 748 F.3d 583 - Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott

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