By: Maxey H.B. No. 944
73R3768 KLL-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a licensing exemption for certain foster care
1-3 facilities providing care to children with acquired immune
1-4 deficiency syndrome or other terminal illnesses.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 248.003, Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 248.003. EXEMPTIONS. This chapter does not apply to:
1-9 (1) a home health agency required to be licensed under
1-10 Chapter 142;
1-11 (2) a person required to be licensed under Chapter 241
1-12 (Texas Hospital Licensing Law);
1-13 (3) an institution required to be licensed under
1-14 Chapter 242;
1-15 (4) an ambulatory surgical center required to be
1-16 licensed under Chapter 243 (Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center
1-17 Licensing Act);
1-18 (5) a birthing center required to be licensed under
1-19 Chapter 244 (Texas Birthing Center Licensing Act);
1-20 (6) a facility required to be licensed under Chapter
1-21 245 (Texas Abortion Facility Reporting and Licensing Act); <or>
1-22 (7) a residential care facility, including a child
1-23 care institution, foster group home, foster family home, and
1-24 child-placing agency, for children in foster care or other
2-1 residential care who are under the conservatorship of the
2-2 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services; or
2-3 (8) a person providing medical or nursing care or
2-4 services under a license or permit issued under other state law.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.