Bill Text: TX SB1382 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to sexual assault and domestic violence awareness continuing education for cosmetology license holders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1382 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1382-Introduced.html
86R2621 TSR-D | ||
By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 1382 |
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relating to sexual assault and domestic violence awareness | ||
continuing education for cosmetology license holders. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1602.354, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The commission shall require continuing education | ||
programs under this chapter to include information on: | ||
(1) activities commonly associated with human | ||
trafficking; | ||
(2) recognition of potential victims of human | ||
trafficking; [ |
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(3) methods for assisting victims of human | ||
trafficking, including how to report human trafficking; and | ||
(4) sexual assault and domestic violence awareness. | ||
(d) A license holder subject to Subsection (a) who is also a | ||
peace officer licensed under Chapter 1701, or an educator certified | ||
under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is exempt from the | ||
portion of continuing education described by Subsection (c)(4). | ||
(e) The commission may waive the requirement that a license | ||
holder participate in the portion of continuing education described | ||
by Subsection (c)(4) if: | ||
(1) the commission determines that completion of the | ||
requirement will cause the person substantial financial hardship; | ||
(2) the person is serving in the United States armed | ||
forces; or | ||
(3) the person is incapacitated due to illness. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter I, Chapter 1602, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1602.409 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1602.409. IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY. A person who has | ||
completed the portion of continuing education described by Section | ||
1602.354(c)(4), or that person's employer, is immune from civil and | ||
criminal liability for reporting, in good faith, information | ||
obtained during the course and scope of the person's employment | ||
that relates to a potential act of sexual assault or domestic | ||
violence. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than March 1, 2020, the Texas | ||
Commission of Licensing and Regulation shall adopt rules to | ||
implement Section 1602.354, Occupations Code, as amended by this | ||
Act. | ||
(b) Section 1602.354, Occupations Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to the renewal of a license or certificate that | ||
expires on or after September 1, 2020. The renewal of a license or | ||
certificate that expires before that date 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |