By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2037
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2021; April 1, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services;
May 13, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; May 13, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of exploitation for purposes of
investigating reports of exploitation against certain elderly
persons and persons with disabilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.251(b), Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt
definitions of "abuse," "neglect," "exploitation," and "an
individual receiving services" for purposes of this subchapter and
investigations conducted under this subchapter. The definition of
"exploitation" adopted by the executive commissioner under this
subsection may not exclude from the definition as an act of
exploitation the provision of a monetary or property loan made to a
provider by an individual receiving services from that provider.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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