Bill Text: TX HB1009 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to imposing requirements on the employment of or contracts for certain individuals providing services to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability, including requiring certain facilities and Medicaid providers to conduct criminal history record information and employee misconduct registry reviews and to suspend the employment or contracts of individuals who engage in reportable conduct; providing administrative penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1009-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to imposing requirements on the employment of or contracts for certain individuals providing services to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability, including requiring certain facilities and Medicaid providers to conduct criminal history record information and employee misconduct registry reviews and to suspend the employment or contracts of individuals who engage in reportable conduct; providing administrative penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1009-Introduced.html
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By: Turner | H.B. No. 1009 |
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relating to criminal history record information reviews of certain | ||
individuals providing services to individuals with an intellectual | ||
or developmental disability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.02485 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.02485. REQUIRED REVIEW OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD | ||
INFORMATION FOR CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL CAREGIVERS. (a) In this | ||
section, "residential caregiver" means an individual who provides, | ||
through a group home or other residential facility licensed by or | ||
operated under the authority of the commission, including a group | ||
home or facility licensed or operated under a Section 1915(c) | ||
waiver program, community-based residential care services: | ||
(1) to not more than four individuals with an | ||
intellectual or developmental disability at any time; and | ||
(2) at a residence other than the home of an individual | ||
described by Subdivision (1). | ||
(b) The commission shall review state and federal criminal | ||
history record information and obtain electronic updates from the | ||
Department of Public Safety of arrests and convictions for each | ||
residential caregiver who holds a license or other operational | ||
authorization issued by the commission. | ||
(c) A residential caregiver who has been convicted of an | ||
offense described by Section 250.006, Health and Safety Code, may | ||
not provide direct care to an individual with an intellectual or | ||
developmental disability. A residential caregiver who violates | ||
this subsection is subject to disciplinary action by the | ||
commission. | ||
(d) The commission shall disenroll from participation in | ||
Medicaid a residential caregiver who has been convicted of an | ||
offense described by Section 250.006, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(e) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |