Bill Text: TX SB898 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 898 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to applicants for employment at assisted living facilities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB898 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB898-Introduced.html

	86R9326 SRA-D

	By: Perry	S.B. No. 898



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to applicants for employment at assisted living
	facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 247, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 247.072 to read as follows:
	Sec. 247.072. APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT; CRIMINAL HISTORY
	CHECK. (a) In addition to the prohibitions provided by Section
	250.003, an assisted living facility licensed under this chapter
	may not employ at the facility an applicant who fails to indicate in
	a written statement developed by the commission and included with
	the submitted application that the applicant has not been convicted
	of an offense described by Section 250.006. For purposes of this
	subsection, a person who commits an offense in another state that is
	substantially similar to an offense described by Section 250.006 is
	considered to have committed the offense described by that section.
	(b) If an applicant for employment at an assisted living
	facility states in the application that the applicant resided in
	another state during the five years preceding the date of the
	application, the facility shall conduct a criminal history check in
	each state in which the applicant previously resided.
	(c) The commission shall develop the statement described by
	Subsection (a) and make the statement available to assisted living
	facilities on the commission's Internet website.
	SECTION 2. Section 247.072, Health and Safety Code, as
	added by this Act, applies only to an application for employment at
	an assisted living facility submitted on or after the effective
	date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.