Bill Text: TX SB1513 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for noncertified surgical technologists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1513 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1513-Introduced.html
  85R5568 DMS-D
 
  By: Uresti S.B. No. 1513
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to continuing education requirements for noncertified
  surgical technologists.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 259.002, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 259.002.  REQUIREMENTS FOR PRACTICING SURGICAL
  TECHNOLOGY; CONTINUING EDUCATION.
         SECTION 2.  Section 259.002, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  A person employed by a health care facility to practice
  surgical technology under Subsection (a)(2) or (3) or Subsection
  (c) shall complete fifteen hours of continuing education each year
  and submit evidence of the satisfactory completion of the
  continuing education to the facility.  The facility may not
  continue to employ the person if the person does not complete the
  continuing education required by this subsection.
         SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 259.002(d), Health and
  Safety Code, as added by this Act, a person employed by a health
  care facility to practice surgical technology is not required to
  complete the continuing education before September 1, 2018.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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