HB754

HB754 requires medical assistants to complete an HHSC-approved course on identifying, assisting and reporting victims of human trafficking, within a time set by Health and Human Services Commission rules. HHSC must approve at least one free course, publish and update its approved-course list, and consider courses offered by health care facilities. Final law

For this law, a medical assistant is someone working under a physician’s supervision who assists with patient-care management, carries out administrative duties and performs clinical procedures. The listed examples include taking vital signs, preparing patients, drawing blood, non-intravenous injections, basic first aid, assisting examinations, collecting specimens, directed medication administration, basic laboratory work and dialysis, including home dialysis. This definition describes whom the training provision covers; it is not a new independent license to perform procedures without otherwise required supervision or authority.

The law also requires covered facilities to display the attorney general’s prescribed trafficking-information sign where all employees can easily see it. The incorporated facility definition includes hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, public health clinics, birthing centers, outpatient clinics and community health centers. Facility definition

Signs must be at least 11 by 17 inches, use at least 16-point type, and be posted separately in English, Spanish and any other primary language spoken by 10 percent or more of the facility’s employees. Required content includes training and employee-protection statements, trafficking indicators and reporting information, the attorney general’s designated number for suspected trafficking or chapter violations, and DPS contact information for suspicious activity.

A facility may not discipline, retaliate against or otherwise discriminate against an employee who reports suspected trafficking in good faith to the facility, law enforcement, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, the attorney general or another appropriate authority. This protects good-faith reports of suspicion, not only reports that lead to a conviction.

The act took effect September 1, 2025. HHSC’s course approval, posting and implementation rules, and the attorney general’s sign design, are required as soon as practicable afterward. The statute assigns individual training-completion timing to HHSC rules rather than setting a universal September 1 deadline. Official history