By: Noble, Guillen H.B. No. 3079
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini, West)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 16, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 16, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of
home and community support services agencies providing inpatient
hospice services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 142.0095 to read as follows:
Sec. 142.0095. INVESTIGATIONS OF HOME AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
SERVICES AGENCIES PROVIDING HOSPICE SERVICES. The commission or
its authorized representative shall investigate an allegation of
abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a client of any age of a home and
community support services agency if:
(1) the abuse, neglect, or exploitation occurs when
the client is receiving inpatient hospice services; and
(2) the alleged perpetrator of the abuse, neglect, or
exploitation is an employee, volunteer, contractor, or
subcontractor of the home and community support services agency.
SECTION 2. Section 142.0095, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to an allegation made on or after
the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.
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