| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
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 develop a |
|
|
one-time basic education and training program on the trafficking of |
|
|
persons that: |
|
|
(1) consists of at least four hours of training; and |
|
|
(2) includes a review of the substance of Sections |
|
|
20A.02 and 43.05, Penal Code. |
|
|
(b) The Department of State Health Services shall: |
|
|
(1) provide the training program under Subsection (a); |
|
|
or |
|
|
(2) approve training programs that meet the |
|
|
requirements of Subsection (a) and provide a list of those programs |
|
|
on the department's Internet website. |
|
|
(c) 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 the basic education and training |
|
|
program described by Subsection (a). |
|
|
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. |