86R29677 SRA-D
 
  By: Blanco H.B. No. 2059
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2059:
 
  By:  Ortega C.S.H.B. No. 2059
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to required human trafficking prevention training as a
  condition of registration permit or license renewal for certain
  health care practitioners.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 3, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 116 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 116.  TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION
         Sec. 116.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
  Commission.
               (2)  "Executive commissioner" means the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
               (3)  "Health care practitioner" means an individual who
  holds a license, certificate, permit, or other authorization issued
  under this title to engage in a health care profession and who
  provides direct patient care.
         Sec. 116.002.  REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  PREVENTION FOR CERTAIN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. (a) A health care
  practitioner, other than a physician or nurse, within the time
  prescribed by commission rule shall successfully complete a
  training course approved by the executive commissioner on
  identifying and assisting victims of human trafficking.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall:
               (1)  approve training courses on human trafficking
  prevention, including at least one course that is available without
  charge; and
               (2)  post a list of the approved training courses on the
  commission's Internet website.
         (c)  The executive commissioner shall update the list of
  approved training courses described by Subsection (b) as necessary
  and consider for approval training courses conducted by health care
  facilities.
         Sec. 116.003.  TRAINING REQUIRED FOR LICENSE RENEWAL.  A
  health care practitioner, other than a physician or nurse, shall
  successfully complete a training course described by Section
  116.002 as a condition for renewal of a license issued to the health
  care practitioner under this title.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 156, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 156.060 to read as follows:
         Sec. 156.060.  CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  PREVENTION. (a)  A physician licensed under this subtitle who
  submits an application for renewal of a registration permit and who
  designates a direct patient care practice must complete, as part of
  the hours of continuing medical education required for compliance
  with Section 156.051(a)(2), a human trafficking prevention course
  approved by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission under Section 116.002.
         (b)  The board shall designate the human trafficking
  prevention course required by Subsection (a) as a medical ethics or
  professional responsibility course for purposes of complying with
  continuing medical education required by Section 156.051(a)(2).
         (c)  The board shall adopt rules to implement this section.
         SECTION 3.  Subchapter G, Chapter 301, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 301.308 to read as follows:
         Sec. 301.308.  CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  PREVENTION. (a)  As part of a continuing competency program under
  Section 301.303, a license holder who provides direct patient care
  shall complete a human trafficking prevention course approved by
  the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services
  Commission under Section 116.002.
         (b)  The board shall adopt rules to implement this section.
         SECTION 4.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission shall approve and post on the commission's
  Internet website the list of approved human trafficking prevention
  training courses and adopt rules necessary to implement Chapter
  116, Occupations Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 5.  (a)  As soon as practicable after the effective
  date of this Act, the applicable licensing agency shall provide
  notice to a health care practitioner of the human trafficking
  prevention training required under Chapter 116, Occupations Code,
  as added by this Act.
         (b)  Notwithstanding Section 116.002, Occupations Code, as
  added by this Act, a health care practitioner is not required to
  comply with that section before September 1, 2020.
         SECTION 6.  Sections 156.060 and 301.308, Occupations Code,
  as added by this Act, apply only to the renewal of a registration
  permit to practice medicine or the renewal of a license to practice
  nursing on or after September 1, 2020. The renewal of a
  registration permit or license before that date is governed by the
  law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.