Bill Text: TX HB233 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB233-Engrossed.html
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| By: Murr, Garcia | H.B. No. 233 | |
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| 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, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) 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. | ||
| (a-1) The training required under Subsection (a) may be | ||
| provided: | ||
| (1) in person; or | ||
| (2) through a live, interactive, instructor-led, and | ||
| electronic method that uses synchronous audiovisual interaction | ||
| between the instructor and employees. | ||
| 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. | ||
