Texas 2017 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3296 Comm Sub / Bill

Filed 05/20/2017

                    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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