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.