| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to personnel training requirements for nursing facilities |
|
|
and assisted living facilities that advertise an Alzheimer's care |
|
|
unit or memory care unit. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 242, Health and Safety |
|
|
Code, is amended by adding Section 242.2015 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 242.2015. TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR FACILITY PERSONNEL |
|
|
PROVIDING ALZHEIMER'S CARE; PROHIBITED ADVERTISEMENT. A nursing |
|
|
facility may not advertise, market, or otherwise promote the |
|
|
facility's Alzheimer's care unit or memory care unit as providing |
|
|
services to residents with Alzheimer's disease and related |
|
|
disorders unless the facility provides the services through |
|
|
specially trained personnel who have successfully completed a |
|
|
minimum of four training hours in caring for those residents as |
|
|
prescribed by commission rule. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 247, Health and Safety |
|
|
Code, is amended by adding Section 247.0297 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 247.0297. TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR FACILITY PERSONNEL |
|
|
PROVIDING ALZHEIMER'S CARE; PROHIBITED ADVERTISEMENT. An assisted |
|
|
living facility may not advertise, market, or otherwise promote the |
|
|
facility's Alzheimer's care unit or memory care unit as providing |
|
|
services to residents with Alzheimer's disease and related |
|
|
disorders unless the facility provides the services through |
|
|
specially trained personnel who have successfully completed a |
|
|
minimum of four training hours in caring for those residents as |
|
|
prescribed by commission rule. |
|
|
SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2023, the executive |
|
|
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall |
|
|
adopt the rules necessary to implement the changes in law made by |
|
|
this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
|
|
advertising, marketing, or promoting conducted on or after January |
|
|
1, 2024. |
|
|
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |