86R9732 SRA-D
 
  By: Blanco H.B. No. 2059
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to required human trafficking prevention training for
  health care practitioners and certain employees of health care
  facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 4, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Chapter 226 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 226.  TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION
         Sec. 226.001.  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 facility" means a facility licensed
  under Subtitle B.
               (4)  "Health care practitioner" means an individual who
  holds a license, certificate, permit, or other authorization issued
  under Title 3, Occupations Code, to engage in a health care
  profession and who provides direct patient care.
         Sec. 226.002.  REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  PREVENTION. (a)  A health care facility shall require each health
  care practitioner who is employed by the facility within the time
  prescribed by commission rule to successfully complete a training
  course approved by the commission on identifying and assisting
  victims of human trafficking.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall approve and make
  available to each health care facility a training course on human
  trafficking prevention that uses the standardized curriculum
  created by the human trafficking prevention task force under
  Section 402.035(d)(6), Government Code, as that section existed on
  January 1, 2019, or a substantially similar curriculum selected by
  the commission.
         Sec. 226.003.  DISCIPLINARY ACTION. The commission or other
  appropriate regulatory agency or governmental body that regulates a
  health care facility subject to this chapter may bring disciplinary
  action against a facility that violates this chapter or a rule
  adopted under this chapter.
         SECTION 2.  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.
         Sec. 116.002.  REQUIRED TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  PREVENTION. (a)  A health care practitioner and each employee of
  the practitioner within the time prescribed by commission rule
  shall successfully complete a training course approved by the
  commission on identifying and assisting victims of human
  trafficking.
         (b)  The executive commissioner shall approve and make
  available to each health care practitioner a training course on
  human trafficking prevention that uses the standardized curriculum
  created by the human trafficking prevention task force under
  Section 402.035(d)(6), Government Code, as that section existed on
  January 1, 2019, or a substantially similar curriculum selected by
  the commission.
         Sec. 116.003.  TRAINING REQUIRED FOR LICENSE RENEWAL. A
  health care practitioner shall successfully complete the training
  course described by Section 116.002 as a condition of renewal of a
  license issued to the health care practitioner under this title.
         SECTION 3.  (a)  As soon as practicable after the effective
  date of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission shall approve and make available the required
  human trafficking prevention training course and adopt rules
  necessary to implement Chapter 226, Health and Safety Code, and
  Chapter 116, Occupations Code, as added by this Act.
         (b)  Notwithstanding Section 226.002, Health and Safety
  Code, and Section 116.002, Occupations Code, as added by this Act, a
  health care facility or health care practitioner is not required to
  comply with those sections before September 1, 2020.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.