Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 311.025. Summary of Certain Parts of Emergency Operations Plan

(a) In this section:

(b) This section applies only to a hospital that has an emergency department or otherwise regularly provides emergency services.

(c) A hospital to which this section applies shall submit to the commission a written summary of the part of the hospital's emergency operations plan that addresses diversions from the hospital's emergency department in the event that the hospital experiences a cyber attack or an electrical power outage.

(d) If a hospital to which this section applies makes changes to the part of the plan described by Subsection (c), the hospital shall update the previously submitted summary and submit the updated summary to the commission not later than the 30th day after the date the changes to the plan are adopted by the hospital's governing body or otherwise approved by the appropriate hospital administrator.

(e) A summary submitted to the commission under this section is confidential and excepted from public disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code.