Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.133 · Subchapter L. ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND UNPROFESSIONAL OR UNETHICAL CONDUCT IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
INSERVICE TRAINING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 inservice training 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.
(b) The rules must prescribe:
(1) minimum standards for the training program; and
(2) a means for monitoring compliance with the requirement.
(c) The department shall review and the executive commissioner shall modify the rules as necessary not later than the last month of each state fiscal year.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 573, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0475, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 970 (S.B. 437), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.161.htm
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