By:  Rabuck                                            H.B. No. 192
       73R1151 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to oral health care education for personnel, inspectors,
    1-3  and surveyors of long-term care facilities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 242, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 242.162 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 242.162.  ORAL HEALTH CARE EDUCATION FOR PERSONNEL,
    1-8  INSPECTORS, AND SURVEYORS.  (a)  The department shall develop a
    1-9  comprehensive oral health care education curriculum for personnel
   1-10  hired by an institution licensed under this chapter and for
   1-11  inspectors and surveyors of those institutions.  The department
   1-12  shall distribute the curriculum to each institution and to each
   1-13  local health department and public health district.
   1-14        (b)  An institution shall use the curriculum to provide
   1-15  training to the institution's personnel concerning oral health care
   1-16  and appropriate oral hygiene techniques for residents of the
   1-17  institution.  The training must be provided not later than the end
   1-18  of the third month after the date on which an individual begins
   1-19  employment with the institution.
   1-20        (c)  The department shall require inspectors and surveyors of
   1-21  institutions to be trained using the curriculum.
   1-22        (d)  An inspector or surveyor conducting an inspection or
   1-23  survey of an institution shall randomly review the institution's
   1-24  resident records to determine if the provision of oral health care
    2-1  for the residents is adequate.  In addition, the inspector or
    2-2  surveyor shall visually check residents during routine inspections
    2-3  or surveys to confirm the level of oral health care being provided.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  An institution licensed under Chapter 242, Health
    2-5  and Safety Code, shall provide oral health care training for
    2-6  existing employees not later than the 30th day after receiving the
    2-7  oral health care education curriculum developed by the Texas
    2-8  Department of Health under Section 242.162, Health and Safety Code,
    2-9  as added by this Act.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.