Bill Text: TX SB187 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 187

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Bill Title: Relating to failure to report assault, neglect, or omission of care in certain group homes; creating a criminal offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [SB187 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB187-Introduced.html

	88R1366 SCP-D

	By: Miles	S.B. No. 187



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to failure to report assault, neglect, or omission of care
	in certain group homes; creating a criminal offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 38, Penal Code, is amended by adding
	Section 38.172 to read as follows:
	Sec. 38.172. FAILURE TO REPORT ASSAULT, NEGLECT, OR
	OMISSION OF CARE IN CERTAIN GROUP HOMES. (a) For purposes of this
	section, "group home" means an establishment that provides, in one
	or more buildings, lodging to three or more residents who are
	unrelated by blood or marriage to the owner of the establishment and
	that provides those residents with community meals, light
	housework, meal preparation, transportation, grocery shopping,
	money management, laundry services, or assistance with
	self-administration of medication but does not provide them with
	personal care services as defined by Section 247.002, Health and
	Safety Code. The term does not include an establishment described
	by Section 260.002, Health and Safety Code.
	(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
	(1) has reasonable cause to believe that a resident of
	a group home has suffered bodily injury due to assault, neglect, or
	an omission in care; and
	(2) fails to report that fact to law enforcement or the
	Department of Family and Protective Services.
	(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
	(d) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
	also constitutes an offense under any other law, the actor may be
	prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.