Texas 2015 84th Regular

Texas House Bill HB416 Enrolled / Bill

Filed 05/28/2015

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                    H.B. No. 416


 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 a training program to identify
 and assist victims of human trafficking.
 (b)  A training program under this section must use the
 standardized curriculum created by the human trafficking
 prevention task force under Section 402.035(d)(6), Government
 Code.
 (c)  The department shall make available to each facility
 described by Sections 171.081(1)(A) and (B) the training program
 required under this section.
 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.
 ______________________________ ______________________________
 President of the Senate Speaker of the House
 I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the House on May 7,
 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
 voting.
 ______________________________
 Chief Clerk of the House
 I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the Senate on May
 27, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 24, Nays 7.
 ______________________________
 Secretary of the Senate
 APPROVED:  _____________________
 Date
 _____________________
 Governor