By: Klick (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 3296
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2017;
May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to persons required to establish nursing peer review
committees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 303.0015(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person shall establish a nursing peer review committee
to conduct nursing peer review under this chapter and Chapter 301:
(1) for vocational nurses, if the person regularly
employs, hires, or contracts for the services of eight [10] or more
nurses; and
(2) for professional nurses, if the person regularly
employs, hires, or contracts for the services of eight [10] or more
nurses, at least four [five] of whom are registered nurses.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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