85R24079 DMS-F
 
  By: Bell, Wu H.B. No. 3934
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3934:
 
  By:  Keough C.S.H.B. No. 3934
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to training and continuing education requirements for
  certain long-term care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22.039, Human Resources Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2)
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall require a surveyor to complete a
  basic training program before the surveyor inspects, surveys, or
  investigates a long-term care facility.
         (b-1)  The training required under Subsection (b) must
  include observation of the operations of a long-term care facility
  unrelated to the survey, inspection, or investigation process for a
  minimum of 10 working days within a 14-day period.
         (b-2)  The department may waive the requirement imposed
  under Subsection (b-1) for a surveyor who has completed in the two
  years preceding the inspection, survey, or investigation one year
  of full-time employment in a nursing facility in this state as a:
               (1)  nursing facility administrator;
               (2)  licensed vocational nurse;
               (3)  registered nurse; or
               (4)  social worker.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.