By: Riddle, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 416
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
and Human Services; May 20, 2015, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 2; May 20, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE VOTE
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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 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.
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