Bill Text: TX HB2609 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to convictions barring employment at or by certain facilities serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2609 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2609-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2609

AN ACT
relating to convictions barring employment at or by certain
facilities serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 250.006(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person for whom the facility is entitled to obtain
criminal history record information may not be employed in a
facility if the person has been convicted of an offense listed in
this subsection:
(1) an offense under Chapter 19, Penal Code (criminal
homicide);
(2) an offense under Chapter 20, Penal Code
(kidnapping and unlawful restraint);
(3) an offense under Section 21.02, Penal Code
(continuous sexual abuse of young child or children), or Section
21.11, Penal Code (indecency with a child);
(4) an offense under Section 22.011, Penal Code
(sexual assault);
(5) an offense under Section 22.02, Penal Code
(aggravated assault);
(6) an offense under Section 22.04, Penal Code (injury
to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual);
(7) an offense under Section 22.041, Penal Code
(abandoning or endangering child);
(8) an offense under Section 22.08, Penal Code (aiding
suicide);
(9) an offense under Section 25.031, Penal Code
(agreement to abduct from custody);
(10) an offense under Section 25.08, Penal Code (sale
or purchase of a child);
(11) an offense under Section 28.02, Penal Code
(arson);
(12) an offense under Section 29.02, Penal Code
(robbery);
(13) an offense under Section 29.03, Penal Code
(aggravated robbery);
(14) an offense under Section 21.08, Penal Code
(indecent exposure);
(15) an offense under Section 21.12, Penal Code
(improper relationship between educator and student);
(16) an offense under Section 21.15, Penal Code
(improper photography or visual recording);
(17) an offense under Section 22.05, Penal Code
(deadly conduct);
(18) an offense under Section 22.021, Penal Code
(aggravated sexual assault);
(19) an offense under Section 22.07, Penal Code
(terroristic threat);
(20) an offense under Section 33.021, Penal Code
(online solicitation of a minor);
(21) an offense under Section 34.02, Penal Code (money
laundering);
(22) an offense under Section 35A.02, Penal Code
(Medicaid fraud);
(23) an offense under Section 36.06, Penal Code
(obstruction or retaliation);
(24) an offense under Section 42.09, Penal Code
(cruelty to livestock animals), or under Section 42.092, Penal Code
(cruelty to nonlivestock animals); or
(25) [(24)] a conviction under the laws of another
state, federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice for an
offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the
elements of an offense listed by this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2609 was passed by the House on April
7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2609 on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2609 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor