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

Texas House Bill 297 (Prior Session Legislation)

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



	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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