By: Veasey, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2191
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2009;
  May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
  and Human Services; May 13, 2009, reported favorably by the
  following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to prohibiting contact between an employee of a facility
  that serves the elderly or disabled persons, whose criminal history
  has not been verified, and a patient or resident of the facility.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 250.003, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  If a facility employs a person pending a criminal
  history check, the facility shall ensure that the person has no
  direct contact with a consumer until the facility obtains the
  person's criminal history record information and verifies the
  person's employability under Section 250.006.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the initial employment of a person by a facility regulated by
  Chapter 250, Health and Safety Code, on or after the effective date
  of this Act. The employment of a person by a facility regulated by
  Chapter 250, Health and Safety Code, before the effective date of
  this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the facility
  hired the employee, and the former law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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