86R9732 SRA-D
By: Blanco H.B. No. 2059
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to required human trafficking prevention training for
health care practitioners and certain employees of health care
facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 4, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 226 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 226. TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION
Sec. 226.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
Commission.
(2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(3) "Health care facility" means a facility licensed
under Subtitle B.
(4) "Health care practitioner" means an individual who
holds a license, certificate, permit, or other authorization issued
under Title 3, Occupations Code, to engage in a health care
profession and who provides direct patient care.
Sec. 226.002. REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PREVENTION. (a) A health care facility shall require each health
care practitioner who is employed by the facility within the time
prescribed by commission rule to successfully complete a training
course approved by the commission on identifying and assisting
victims of human trafficking.
(b) The executive commissioner shall approve and make
available to each health care facility a training course on human
trafficking prevention that uses the standardized curriculum
created by the human trafficking prevention task force under
Section 402.035(d)(6), Government Code, as that section existed on
January 1, 2019, or a substantially similar curriculum selected by
the commission.
Sec. 226.003. DISCIPLINARY ACTION. The commission or other
appropriate regulatory agency or governmental body that regulates a
health care facility subject to this chapter may bring disciplinary
action against a facility that violates this chapter or a rule
adopted under this chapter.
SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 3, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 116 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 116. TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION
Sec. 116.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
Commission.
(2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(3) "Health care practitioner" means an individual who
holds a license, certificate, permit, or other authorization issued
under this title to engage in a health care profession.
Sec. 116.002. REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PREVENTION. (a) A health care practitioner and each employee of
the practitioner within the time prescribed by commission rule
shall successfully complete a training course approved by the
commission on identifying and assisting victims of human
trafficking.
(b) The executive commissioner shall approve and make
available to each health care practitioner a training course on
human trafficking prevention that uses the standardized curriculum
created by the human trafficking prevention task force under
Section 402.035(d)(6), Government Code, as that section existed on
January 1, 2019, or a substantially similar curriculum selected by
the commission.
Sec. 116.003. TRAINING REQUIRED FOR LICENSE RENEWAL. A
health care practitioner shall successfully complete the training
course described by Section 116.002 as a condition of renewal of a
license issued to the health care practitioner under this title.
SECTION 3. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall approve and make available the required
human trafficking prevention training course and adopt rules
necessary to implement Chapter 226, Health and Safety Code, and
Chapter 116, Occupations Code, as added by this Act.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 226.002, Health and Safety
Code, and Section 116.002, Occupations Code, as added by this Act, a
health care facility or health care practitioner is not required to
comply with those sections before September 1, 2020.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.