H.B. No. 416
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring personnel of abortion facilities and certain
  other facilities performing abortions to complete training on human
  trafficking.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, is amended
  by adding Subchapter E to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER E. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON TRAFFICKING OF
  PERSONS FOR CERTAIN FACILITY PERSONNEL
         Sec. 171.081.  APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies to
  each person who:
               (1)  is employed by, volunteers at, or performs
  services under contract with:
                     (A)  an abortion facility licensed under Chapter
  245; or
                     (B)  an ambulatory surgical center licensed under
  Chapter 243 that performs more than 50 abortions in any 12-month
  period; and
               (2)  has direct contact with patients of the facility.
         Sec. 171.082.  EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON
  TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS. (a) The executive commissioner of the
  Health and Human Services Commission by rule shall require a person
  described by Section 171.081 to complete within a reasonable time
  after beginning work at the facility a training program to identify
  and assist victims of human trafficking.
         (b)  A training program under this section must use the
  standardized curriculum created by the human trafficking
  prevention task force under Section 402.035(d)(6), Government
  Code.
         (c)  The department shall make available to each facility
  described by Sections 171.081(1)(A) and (B) the training program
  required under this section.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2015, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt the rules required by Section 171.082, Health and Safety
  Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  A person described by Section 171.081, Health
  and Safety Code, as added by this Act, who is hired, begins
  volunteering, or begins providing services under contract before
  September 1, 2015, is not required to comply with Section 171.082,
  Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before September 1,
  2016.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the House on May 7,
  2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 416 was passed by the Senate on May
  27, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 24, Nays 7.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor