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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 43-0)
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 | ||
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Governor |