Bill Text: TX HB297 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to inservice training on prevention of abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct provided by certain health care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB297 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB297-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Murr (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) H.B. No. 297
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021;
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
Human Services; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to inservice training on prevention of abuse, neglect, and
illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct provided by certain
health care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require each
inpatient mental health facility, treatment facility, or hospital
that provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to
annually provide as a condition of continued licensure a minimum of
eight hours of initial inservice training for new employees and
four hours of continuing inservice training for continuing
employees that is designed to assist employees and health care
professionals associated with the facility in identifying patient
abuse or neglect and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct
by or in the facility.
SECTION 2. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, as
amended by this Act, applies to the minimum number of inservice
training hours provided as a condition of initial or continued
licensure by certain health care facilities subject to that section
on and after the effective date of this Act. The minimum number of
inservice training hours provided before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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