Texas Health And Safety Code Title 4, Chapter 250 - Nurse Aide Registry And Criminal History Checks Of Employees And Applicants For Employment In Certain Facilities Serving The Elderly, Persons With Disabilities, Or Persons With Terminal Illnesses

• Texas Section 250.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Nurse aide registry" means a list maintained by the Department of Aging and Disability Services of nurse aides under the Omnibus...
• Texas Section 250.002 - Information Obtained By Facility, Regulatory Agency, Or Private Agency
  (a) A regulatory agency or a financial management services agency on behalf of an individual employer is entitled to obtain from the Department of Public...
• Texas Section 250.003 - Verification Of Employability; Annual Search; Discharge
  (a) A facility or individual employer may not employ an applicant: (1) if the facility or individual employer determines, as a result of a criminal...
• Texas Section 250.0035 - Training Requirements; Continuing Education
  (a) To be listed on the nurse aide registry, an applicant must complete a training program approved by the Department of Aging and Disability Services...
• Texas Section 250.004 - Criminal History Record Of Employees
  (a) Identifying information of an employee in a covered facility or of an employee of an individual employer shall be submitted electronically, on disk, or...
• Texas Section 250.005 - Notice And Opportunity To Be Heard Concerning Accuracy Of Information
  (a) If a facility, financial management services agency, or individual employer believes that a conviction may bar a person from employment in a facility or...
• Texas Section 250.006 - Convictions Barring Employment
  (a) A person for whom the facility or the individual employer is entitled to obtain criminal history record information may not be employed in a...
• Texas Section 250.007 - Records Privileged
  (a) The criminal history records are for the exclusive use of the regulatory agency, the requesting facility, the private agency on behalf of the requesting...
• Texas Section 250.008 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person releases or otherwise discloses any information received under this chapter except as prescribed by Section 250.007(b)...
• Texas Section 250.009 - Civil Liability
  (a) A facility, an officer or employee of a facility, a financial management services agency, or an individual employer is not civilly liable for failure...

Last modified: September 28, 2016