By:  West                                                         S.B. No. 1073
	(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2003; March 17, 2003, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; 
April 22, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, 
Nays 0; April 22, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to convictions barring employment in certain facilities 
serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 250.006, Health and 
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  A person [convicted of an offense under Chapter 31, 
Penal Code, that is punishable as a felony] may not be employed in a 
position the duties of which involve direct contact with a consumer 
in a facility before the fifth anniversary of the date the person is 
convicted of:
		(1)  an offense under Section 22.01, Penal Code 
(assault), that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or as a 
felony;
		(2)  an offense under Section 30.02, Penal Code 
(burglary);          
		(3)  an offense under Chapter 31, Penal Code (theft), 
that is punishable as a felony;
		(4)  an offense under Section 32.45, Penal Code 
(misapplication of fiduciary property or property of a financial 
institution), that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or a 
felony; or
		(5)  an offense under Section 32.46, Penal Code 
(securing execution of a document by deception), that is punishable 
as a Class A misdemeanor or a felony [the conviction].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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