85R13253 EES-D
By: Klick H.B. No. 3296
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 five [10] or more
nurses; and
(2) for professional nurses, if the person regularly
employs, hires, or contracts for the services of five [10] or more
nurses, at least three [five] of whom are registered nurses.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.