By: Murr (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) H.B. No. 297
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2021;
  May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to inservice training on prevention of abuse, neglect, and
  illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct provided by certain
  health care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The executive commissioner by rule shall require each
  inpatient mental health facility, treatment facility, or hospital
  that provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to
  annually provide as a condition of continued licensure a minimum of
  eight hours of initial inservice training for new employees and
  four hours of continuing inservice training for continuing
  employees that is designed to assist employees and health care
  professionals associated with the facility in identifying patient
  abuse or neglect and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct
  by or in the facility.
         SECTION 2.  Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies to the minimum number of inservice
  training hours provided as a condition of initial or continued
  licensure by certain health care facilities subject to that section
  on and after the effective date of this Act. The minimum number of
  inservice training hours provided before the effective date of this
  Act 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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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