Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 48.051
Promotora and Community Health Worker Training Program

(a)

The department shall establish and operate a program designed to train and educate persons who act as promotoras or community health workers. In establishing the training program, the department, to the extent possible, shall consider the applicable recommendations of the advisory committee.

(b)

Participation in a training and education program established under this section is voluntary for a promotora or community health worker who provides services without receiving any compensation and mandatory for a promotora or community health worker who provides services for compensation. The executive commissioner may adopt rules to exempt a promotora or community health worker from mandatory training who has served for three or more years or who has 1,000 or more hours of experience.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 537 (H.B. 2610), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.

Source: Section 48.051 — Promotora and Community Health Worker Training Program, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­48.­htm#48.­051 (accessed May 4, 2024).

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