Bill Text: TX HB233 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB233-Engrossed.html
88R15583 MCF-F | ||
By: Murr, Garcia | H.B. No. 233 |
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relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and | ||
illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health | ||
care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.133, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) 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. | ||
(a-1) The training required under Subsection (a) may be | ||
provided: | ||
(1) in person; or | ||
(2) through a live, interactive, instructor-led, and | ||
electronic method that uses synchronous audiovisual interaction | ||
between the instructor and employees. | ||
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 licensure by 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, 2023. |