Bill Text: TX HB416 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring personnel of abortion facilities and certain other facilities performing abortions to complete training on human trafficking.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 43)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB416 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB416-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 416 | ||
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| relating to requiring personnel of abortion facilities and certain | ||
| other facilities performing abortions to complete training on human | ||
| trafficking. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER E. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON TRAFFICKING OF | ||
| PERSONS FOR CERTAIN FACILITY PERSONNEL | ||
| Sec. 171.081. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies to | ||
| each person who: | ||
| (1) is employed by, volunteers at, or performs | ||
| services under contract with: | ||
| (A) an abortion facility licensed under Chapter | ||
| 245; or | ||
| (B) an ambulatory surgical center licensed under | ||
| Chapter 243 that performs more than 50 abortions in any 12-month | ||
| period; and | ||
| (2) has direct contact with patients of the facility. | ||
| Sec. 171.082. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON | ||
| TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS. (a) The executive commissioner of the | ||
| Health and Human Services Commission by rule shall require a person | ||
| described by Section 171.081 to complete within a reasonable time | ||
| after beginning work at the facility a training program to identify | ||
| and assist victims of human trafficking. | ||
| (b) A training program under this section must use the | ||
| standardized curriculum created by the human trafficking | ||
| prevention task force under Section 402.035(d)(6), Government | ||
| Code. | ||
| (c) The department shall make available to each facility | ||
| described by Sections 171.081(1)(A) and (B) the training program | ||
| required under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt the rules required by Section 171.082, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. A person described by Section 171.081, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, as added by this Act, who is hired, begins | ||
| volunteering, or begins providing services under contract before | ||
| September 1, 2015, is not required to comply with Section 171.082, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before September 1, | ||
| 2016. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
