SB626 - Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

      By: Flores S.B. No. 626     (Frank)           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(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   three 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 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, 2025.