88R15583 MCF-F
 
  By: Murr, Garcia H.B. No. 233
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and
  illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health
  care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 161.133, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) 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.
         (a-1)  The training required under Subsection (a) may be
  provided:
               (1)  in person; or
               (2)  through a live, interactive, instructor-led, and
  electronic method that uses synchronous audiovisual interaction
  between the instructor and employees.
         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 licensure by 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, 2023.