Sec. 253.0025.  EMPLOYMENT SUSPENSION FOR FACILITY EMPLOYEES ACCUSED OF COMMITTING REPORTABLE CONDUCT.  A facility shall suspend the employment of a facility employee who the Health and Human Services Commission finds has engaged in reportable conduct while the employee exhausts any applicable appeals process, including informal and formal appeals and any hearing or judicial review conducted in accordance with Section 253.004 or 253.005, pending a final decision by an administrative law judge.  The facility may not reinstate the employee's position during the course of any applicable appeals process.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 674 (H.B. 1009), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2023.