Bill Text: TX SB1873 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-07 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1873-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Campbell, et al. | S.B. No. 1873 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2015; March 25, 2015, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; | ||
| May 5, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3; May 5, 2015, sent | ||
| to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1873 | By: Schwertner | |
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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 develop a | ||
| one-time basic education and training program on the trafficking of | ||
| persons that: | ||
| (1) consists of at least four hours of training; and | ||
| (2) includes a review of the substance of Sections | ||
| 20A.02 and 43.05, Penal Code. | ||
| (b) The Department of State Health Services shall: | ||
| (1) provide the training program under Subsection (a); | ||
| or | ||
| (2) approve training programs that meet the | ||
| requirements of Subsection (a) and provide a list of those programs | ||
| on the department's Internet website. | ||
| (c) 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 the basic education and training | ||
| program described by Subsection (a). | ||
| 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. | ||
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