86R9326 SRA-D
 
  By: Perry S.B. No. 898
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to applicants for employment at assisted living
  facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 247, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 247.072 to read as follows:
         Sec. 247.072.  APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT; CRIMINAL HISTORY
  CHECK. (a)  In addition to the prohibitions provided by Section
  250.003, an assisted living facility licensed under this chapter
  may not employ at the facility an applicant who fails to indicate in
  a written statement developed by the commission and included with
  the submitted application that the applicant has not been convicted
  of an offense described by Section 250.006.  For purposes of this
  subsection, a person who commits an offense in another state that is
  substantially similar to an offense described by Section 250.006 is
  considered to have committed the offense described by that section.
         (b)  If an applicant for employment at an assisted living
  facility states in the application that the applicant resided in
  another state during the five years preceding the date of the
  application, the facility shall conduct a criminal history check in
  each state in which the applicant previously resided.
         (c)  The commission shall develop the statement described by
  Subsection (a) and make the statement available to assisted living
  facilities on the commission's Internet website.
         SECTION 2.  Section 247.072, Health and Safety Code, as
  added by this Act, applies only to an application for employment at
  an assisted living facility submitted on or after the effective
  date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.