Bill Text: TX SB1825 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required reportable disease training for certain health care practitioners.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1825 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1825-Introduced.html
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| By: LaMantia | S.B. No. 1825 | |
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| relating to required reportable disease training for certain health | ||
| care practitioners. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 3, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 117 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 117. TRAINING COURSE ON REPORTABLE DISEASES | ||
| Sec. 117.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
| (3) "Qualifying health care practitioner" means an | ||
| individual who: | ||
| (A) holds a license, certificate, permit, or | ||
| other authorization issued under this title to engage in a health | ||
| care profession and who provides direct patient care; and | ||
| (B) is required to report a suspected reportable | ||
| disease to the local health authority under Section 81.042, Health | ||
| and Safety Code. | ||
| (4) "Reportable disease" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| Sec. 117.002. REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON PROCEDURES FOR | ||
| REPORTABLE DISEASE REPORTING FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE | ||
| PRACTITIONERS. (a) A qualifying health care practitioner within | ||
| the time prescribed by commission rule shall complete a training | ||
| course approved by the executive commissioner on the procedures for | ||
| reportable disease reporting. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall: | ||
| (1) approve training courses on the procedures for | ||
| reportable disease reporting; and | ||
| (2) post a list of the approved training courses on the | ||
| commission's Internet website. | ||
| (c) An approved training course under Subsection (b) may not | ||
| be less than three hours, and must include: | ||
| (1) information on the most recent list of reportable | ||
| diseases maintained under Section 81.041, Health and Safety Code; | ||
| (2) the reporting time requirements for each disease | ||
| on the list; and | ||
| (3) an overview of state agency rules relating to | ||
| reportable diseases. | ||
| (d) The executive commissioner shall update the list of | ||
| approved training courses described by Subsection (b) as necessary | ||
| and consider for approval training courses conducted by health care | ||
| facilities. | ||
| Sec. 117.003. TRAINING REQUIRED FOR LICENSE RENEWAL. A | ||
| qualifying health care practitioner shall complete a training | ||
| course described by Section 117.002 as part of the practitioner's | ||
| continuing education requirements for renewal of a license, | ||
| certificate, permit, or other authorization issued to the health | ||
| care practitioner under this title. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
| date of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| Chapter 117, Occupations Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Section 117.002, Occupations Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, a health care practitioner is not required to | ||
| comply with that section before September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
