Bill Text: TX HB2418 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for noncertified surgical technologists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Calendars Committee [HB2418 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2418-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Cosper, Oliverson | H.B. No. 2418 | |
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| relating to continuing education requirements for noncertified | ||
| surgical technologists. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 259.002, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 259.002. REQUIREMENTS FOR PRACTICING SURGICAL | ||
| TECHNOLOGY; CONTINUING EDUCATION. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 259.002, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A person employed by a health care facility to practice | ||
| surgical technology under Subsection (a)(2) or (3) or Subsection | ||
| (c) shall complete fifteen hours of continuing education each year | ||
| and submit evidence of the satisfactory completion of the | ||
| continuing education to the facility. The facility may not | ||
| continue to employ the person if the person does not complete the | ||
| continuing education required by this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 259.002(d), Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, a person employed by a health | ||
| care facility to practice surgical technology is not required to | ||
| complete the continuing education before September 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
