Monitoring the SessionSB 303
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relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
New hires get eight hours, everyone else three a year.
The bill rewrites a state health law so that inpatient mental health facilities, treatment facilities, and hospitals offering comprehensive medical rehabilitation must give new employees at least eight hours of training, and continuing employees at least three hours each year, on spotting patient abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct. It touches those facilities, their staff, and the health care professionals who work with them, and the state health executive commissioner must write the rule. Facilities that do not provide the training hours risk their license, starting September 1, 2027.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 831 (Died in committee) and 89R SB 626 (Did not pass). Checked against 88R and 89R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 831 (Died in committee) and 89R SB 626 (Did not pass). Filed in 3 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R and 89R only.TRY NO. 3. Filed in 3 sessions: 88R, 89R and 90R. Checked against 88R and 89R only.
90R-SB303 · 2026-11-09
relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.
New hires get eight hours, everyone else three a year.
The bill rewrites a state health law so that inpatient mental health facilities, treatment facilities, and hospitals offering comprehensive medical rehabilitation must give new employees at least eight hours of training, and continuing employees at least three hours each year, on spotting patient abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, or unethical conduct. It touches those facilities, their staff, and the health care professionals who work with them, and the state health executive commissioner must write the rule. Facilities that do not provide the training hours risk their license, starting September 1, 2027.
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No fiscal note in the loaded record.
No verified beat found.
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Derived itemized flow · Jul 12, 2024 to Oct 24, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.
Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.
$55,000.00
Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.
Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.
TEC account match.
TeamDerived itemized flow · Dec 13, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.
Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.
Report IDs: 100985131, 101008112, 101072110.
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$55,000.00
Also funds 124 other sitting lawmakers.
Derived recipient stock · Jul 10, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.
TEC account match.
TeamDerived itemized flow · Dec 13, 2024 to Oct 23, 2026. State data as of Nov 4, 2026.
Derived itemized contributions on live regular reports and uncovered special-session dates. Internal account transfers and daily reports are excluded.
Report IDs: 100985131, 101008112, 101072110.
No floor vote loaded for this bill.
No fiscal note in the loaded record.
Analysis of text version I by a super-expensive superintelligence, Nov 9, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 3 times: 88R, 89R and now. Checked against 88R and 89R only.
by Sen. Flores, same lead author · Died in committee · same text
Introduced textLast action, Mar 1, 2023: Referred to Health & Human Services
Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.
Caption, 88R bill history
by Sen. Flores, same lead author · Did not pass · same text
Introduced textLast action, May 26, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.
Caption, 89R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Nov 9, 2026
11/09/2026 S Filed
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Nov 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM CST. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Health Care Providers
Health--General
Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
STAFF DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
The text as introduced · 238 words
90R3676 AB-F By: Flores S.B. No. 303 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, 2027.