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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to persons required to establish nursing peer review |
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committees. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 303.0015(a), Occupations Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(a) A person shall establish a nursing peer review committee |
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to conduct nursing peer review under this chapter and Chapter 301: |
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(1) for vocational nurses, if the person regularly |
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employs, hires, or contracts for the services of eight [10] or more |
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nurses; and |
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(2) for professional nurses, if the person regularly |
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employs, hires, or contracts for the services of eight [10] or more |
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nurses, at least four [five] of whom are registered nurses. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |