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2023 Texas Statutes
Health and Safety Code
Title 4 - Health Facilities
Subtitle B - Licensing of Health Facilities
Chapter 258 - Mandatory Overtime for Nurses Prohibited
Section 258.003. Prohibition of Mandatory Overtime
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TX Health & Safety Code § 258.003 (2023)
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Sec. 258.003. PROHIBITION OF MANDATORY OVERTIME. (a) A hospital may not require a nurse to work mandatory overtime, and a nurse may refuse to work mandatory overtime.
(b) This section does not prohibit a nurse from volunteering to work overtime.
(c) A hospital may not use on-call time as a substitute for mandatory overtime.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 742 (S.B. 476), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
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