Bill Text: TX HB1642 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements for investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation against residents of certain health facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1642 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1642-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements for investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation against residents of certain health facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1642 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1642-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bell, Wu, Keough (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 1642 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to reporting requirements for investigations of abuse, | ||
neglect, or exploitation against residents of certain health | ||
facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 260A.007(k), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(k) If the department determines the report of abuse, | ||
neglect, or exploitation is substantiated at the conclusion of the | ||
investigation, the [ |
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written report of the investigation and submit the report and its | ||
recommendations to the [ |
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enforcement agency. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an investigation completed on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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