Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1		By: Flores S.B. No. 626
2	2		(In the Senate - Filed December 16, 2024; February 3, 2025,
3	3		read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
4	4		Services; April 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following
5	5		vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 14, 2025, sent to printer.)
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10	11		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	12		AN ACT
12	13		relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and
13	14		illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health
14	15		care facilities.
15	16		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
16	17		SECTION 1. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, is
17	18		amended to read as follows:
18	19		(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require each
19	20		inpatient mental health facility, treatment facility, or hospital
20	21		that provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to
21	22		annually provide as a condition of continued licensure a minimum of
22	23		eight hours of initial inservice training for new employees and
23	24		three hours of continuing inservice training for continuing
24	25		employees that is designed to assist employees and health care
25	26		professionals associated with the facility in identifying patient
26	27		abuse or neglect and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct
27	28		by or in the facility.
28	29		SECTION 2. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, as
29	30		amended by this Act, applies to the minimum number of inservice
30	31		training hours provided as a condition of licensure by health care
31	32		facilities subject to that section on and after the effective date
32	33		of this Act. The minimum number of inservice training hours
33	34		provided before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
34	35		law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
35	36		the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
36	37		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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