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SB626 • 2025

Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Flores
Last action
2025-05-26
Official status
05/26/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  3. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  4. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  5. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  6. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  7. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  9. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  10. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  11. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  12. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  13. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Health

  14. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  15. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  16. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  17. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  18. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  19. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  20. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  21. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  22. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  23. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  24. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  25. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  26. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  27. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  28. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  29. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  30. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  31. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  32. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  33. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  34. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Health & Human Services

  35. 2024-12-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  36. 2024-12-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 626 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Flores

S.B. No. 626

(Frank)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and

illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health

care facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

(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
initial
inservice training
for new employees and

three hours of continuing inservice training for continuing

employees that is
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.

SECTION 2. Section 161.133(a), Health and Safety Code, as

amended by this Act, applies to the minimum number of inservice

training hours provided as a condition of licensure by health care

facilities subject to that section on and after the effective date

of this Act. The minimum number of inservice training hours

provided before the effective date of this Act is governed by the

law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and

the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.