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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 258.003: PROHIBITION OF MANDATORY OVERTIME.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES
  3. SUBTITLE B. LICENSING OF HEALTH FACILITIES
  4. CHAPTER 258. MANDATORY OVERTIME FOR NURSES PROHIBITED

(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.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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