Bill Text: TX SB831 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 831

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Co-author authorized [SB831 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB831-Introduced.html

	88R1456 MCF-F

	By: Flores	S.B. No. 831



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and
	illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health
	care facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall require each
	inpatient mental health facility, treatment facility, or hospital
	that provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to
	annually provide as a condition of continued licensure a minimum of
	eight hours of initial inservice training for new employees and
	four hours of continuing inservice training for continuing
	employees that is designed to assist employees and health care
	professionals associated with the facility in identifying patient
	abuse or neglect and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct
	by or in the facility.
	SECTION 2. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, as
	amended by this Act, applies to the minimum number of inservice
	training hours provided as a condition of licensure by health care
	facilities subject to that section on and after the effective date
	of this Act. The minimum number of inservice training hours
	provided before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
	law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
	the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.