88R6375 LRM-D
By: Capriglione, Vasut, Allison H.B. No. 1469
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to personnel training requirements for nursing facilities
and assisted living facilities that advertise an Alzheimer's care
unit or memory care unit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 242, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 242.2015 to read as follows:
Sec. 242.2015. TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR FACILITY PERSONNEL
PROVIDING ALZHEIMER'S CARE; PROHIBITED ADVERTISEMENT. A nursing
facility may not advertise, market, or otherwise promote the
facility's Alzheimer's care unit or memory care unit as providing
services to residents with Alzheimer's disease and related
disorders unless the facility provides the services through
specially trained personnel who have successfully completed a
minimum of four training hours in caring for those residents as
prescribed by commission rule.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 247, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 247.0297 to read as follows:
Sec. 247.0297. TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR FACILITY PERSONNEL
PROVIDING ALZHEIMER'S CARE; PROHIBITED ADVERTISEMENT. An assisted
living facility may not advertise, market, or otherwise promote the
facility's Alzheimer's care unit or memory care unit as providing
services to residents with Alzheimer's disease and related
disorders unless the facility provides the services through
specially trained personnel who have successfully completed a
minimum of four training hours in caring for those residents as
prescribed by commission rule.
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2023, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
adopt the rules necessary to implement the changes in law made by
this Act.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
advertising, marketing, or promoting conducted on or after January
1, 2024.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.