Tex. Health & Safety Code § 258.003 · Chapter 258. MANDATORY OVERTIME FOR NURSES PROHIBITED
PROHIBITION OF MANDATORY OVERTIME.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A hospital may not require a nurse to work mandatory overtime, and a nurse may refuse to work mandatory overtime.
(b) This section does not prohibit a nurse from volunteering to work overtime.
(c) A hospital may not use on-call time as a substitute for mandatory overtime.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 742 (S.B. 476), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
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.258.htm
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