Bill Text: TX SB229 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to employment verification of certain health facility applicants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB229 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB229-Introduced.html
| 88R424 JG-D | ||
| By: Miles | S.B. No. 229 | |
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| relating to employment verification of certain health facility | ||
| applicants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 4, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 250A to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 250A. EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION OF HEALTH FACILITY | ||
| APPLICANTS | ||
| Sec. 250A.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive | ||
| commissioner of the commission. | ||
| (3) "Health facility" means a health facility licensed | ||
| by the commission. | ||
| Sec. 250A.002. REQUIRED EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION. (a) Each | ||
| health facility shall conduct an employment verification for each | ||
| applicant the facility may potentially employ at the facility | ||
| before offering the applicant the position. In conducting the | ||
| employment verification, the facility shall at a minimum contact | ||
| the previous employers listed in the submitted application | ||
| materials for each applicant the facility may potentially employ | ||
| in a position in which the applicant: | ||
| (1) provides services to children or vulnerable | ||
| adults; or | ||
| (2) handles any state money. | ||
| (b) A health facility may contract with an appropriately | ||
| qualified person to conduct the employment verification required by | ||
| this section. | ||
| Sec. 250A.003. RULES. The executive commissioner may adopt | ||
| rules necessary to implement this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
