By: Dean, Guillen, Howard, Klick H.B. No. 2409
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the waiver of requirements for removing a person's
license from inactive status during a state of disaster.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 301.261, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (d) and as necessary to
mitigate a nursing workforce shortage caused by a state of
disaster, the board shall waive a requirement that a person pay a
reactivation fee or complete any required continuing education to
remove the person's license from inactive status if the license has
been on inactive status for less than four years.
SECTION 2. 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, 2021.