84R1606 JSC-F
By: Riddle H.B. No. 416
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring personnel of abortion facilities and certain
other facilities performing abortions to complete training on human
trafficking.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Subchapter E to read as follows.
SUBCHAPTER E. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON TRAFFICKING OF
PERSONS FOR CERTAIN FACILITY PERSONNEL
Sec. 171.081. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies to
each person who:
(1) is employed by, volunteers at, or performs
services under contract with:
(A) an abortion facility licensed under Chapter
245; or
(B) an ambulatory surgical center licensed under
Chapter 243 that performs more than 50 abortions in any 12-month
period; and
(2) has direct contact with patients of the facility.
Sec. 171.082. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON
TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS. (a) The executive commissioner of the
Health and Human Services Commission by rule shall require a person
described by Section 171.081 to complete within a reasonable time
after beginning work at the facility the basic education and
training program described by Section 1701.258(a), Occupations
Code.
(b) The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall make
available to each person described by Section 171.081 the required
basic education and training program described by Section
1701.258(a), Occupations Code, and the voluntary advanced
education, instruction, and training program described by Section
1701.258(b), Occupations Code.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
adopt the rules required by Section 171.082, Health and Safety
Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. A person described by Section 171.081, Health
and Safety Code, as added by this Act, who is hired, begins
volunteering, or begins providing services under contract before
September 1, 2015, is not required to comply with Section 171.082,
Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before September 1,
2016.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.