Relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, providing for the use of annual registration fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions

This bill relates to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities under Code chapter 135Q (health care employment agencies and workers). The bill amends the current Code chapter so that the chapter is only applicable to health care employment agencies and agency workers who provide nursing services as defined in the bill.2, relating to a contract between a health care employment agency and an agency worker or health care entity, a contract between a health care employment agency and an agency worker or health care entity if the contract is entered into for the purpose of placing an agency worker the health care employment agency assisted in obtaining authorization to work in the United States; contains an initial duration term of not less than months and a total duration term, including any renewals or extensions, of not more than months; and requires the agency worker to work for a single health care entity for the entire duration of the contract. The bill provides that the registration fees collected by the department of inspections and appeals are retained by the department.2 that was entered into or executed on or after January 1, 2019.