Bill Text: TX HB3079 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of home and community support services agencies providing inpatient hospice services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB3079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3079-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3079 | ||
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| relating to investigations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of | ||
| home and community support services agencies providing inpatient | ||
| hospice services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 142.0095 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 142.0095. INVESTIGATIONS OF HOME AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT | ||
| SERVICES AGENCIES PROVIDING HOSPICE SERVICES. The commission or | ||
| its authorized representative shall investigate an allegation of | ||
| abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a client of any age of a home and | ||
| community support services agency if: | ||
| (1) the abuse, neglect, or exploitation occurs when | ||
| the client is receiving inpatient hospice services; and | ||
| (2) the alleged perpetrator of the abuse, neglect, or | ||
| exploitation is an employee, volunteer, contractor, or | ||
| subcontractor of the home and community support services agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 142.0095, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to an allegation made on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3079 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3079 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
