Bill Text: TX HB3934 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to training and continuing education requirements for certain long-term care facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3934 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3934-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to training and continuing education requirements for certain long-term care facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3934 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3934-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bell, Wu (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 3934 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to training and continuing education requirements for | ||
certain long-term care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.039, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) The department shall require a surveyor to complete a | ||
basic training program before the surveyor inspects, surveys, or | ||
investigates a long-term care facility. | ||
(b-1) The training required under Subsection (b) must | ||
include observation of the operations of a long-term care facility | ||
unrelated to the survey, inspection, or investigation process for a | ||
minimum of 10 working days within a 14-day period. | ||
(b-2) The department may waive the requirement imposed | ||
under Subsection (b-1) for a surveyor who has completed in the two | ||
years preceding the inspection, survey, or investigation one year | ||
of full-time employment in a nursing facility in this state as a: | ||
(1) nursing facility administrator; | ||
(2) licensed vocational nurse; | ||
(3) registered nurse; or | ||
(4) social worker. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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