Bill Text: TX SB189 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a criminal offense concerning the failure of certain persons to report mistreatment of residents of group homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB189 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB189-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a criminal offense concerning the failure of certain persons to report mistreatment of residents of group homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB189 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB189-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles, West | S.B. No. 189 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2022; February 15, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; April 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the creation of a criminal offense concerning the | ||
failure of certain persons to report abuse, neglect, or | ||
exploitation in boarding home facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 260, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 260.0091 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 260.0091. REQUIRED REPORT BY LESSOR OF ABUSE, NEGLECT, | ||
OR EXPLOITATION; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) A person commits an offense | ||
if the person: | ||
(1) owns a building that the person leases to another | ||
person who operates a boarding home facility in the building; | ||
(2) has actual knowledge that a resident of the | ||
boarding home facility is being or has been abused, neglected, or | ||
exploited; and | ||
(3) fails to report the abuse, neglect, or | ||
exploitation to the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
for investigation by that agency. | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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