Tex. Health and Safety Code § 248A.1015: TRANSPORTATION STANDARDS.

The executive commissioner by rule shall establish minimum standards for transportation services as required under Section 248A.101(b)(9). In adopting rules under this section, the executive commissioner:

(1) shall authorize a center to determine:

(A) in coordination with a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative, the schedule of transportation services; and

(B) in coordination with the client's prescribing physician, the necessary type of provider who must be present during transportation;

(2) shall permit a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative to decline a center's transportation services entirely or only on a specific date; and

(3) may not:

(A) require a plan of care or physician's order to document a client's need for transportation services to access a center's services; or

(B) consider transportation services as nursing services included in a client's plan of care.

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 862 (H.B. 3550), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.