1-1  By:  Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Rosson)                   H.B. No. 944
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1993;
    1-3  May 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Zaffirini          x                               
    1-9        Ellis              x                               
   1-10        Madla              x                               
   1-11        Moncrief           x                               
   1-12        Nelson             x                               
   1-13        Patterson          x                               
   1-14        Shelley            x                               
   1-15        Truan              x                               
   1-16        Wentworth                                     x    
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to a licensing exemption for certain foster care
   1-20  facilities providing care to children with acquired immune
   1-21  deficiency syndrome or other terminal illnesses.
   1-22        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-23        SECTION 1.  Section 248.003, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-24  amended to read as follows:
   1-25        Sec. 248.003.  EXEMPTIONS.  This chapter does not apply to:
   1-26              (1)  a home health agency required to be licensed under
   1-27  Chapter 142;
   1-28              (2)  a person required to be licensed under Chapter 241
   1-29  (Texas Hospital Licensing Law);
   1-30              (3)  an institution required to be licensed under
   1-31  Chapter 242;
   1-32              (4)  an ambulatory surgical center required to be
   1-33  licensed under Chapter 243 (Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center
   1-34  Licensing Act);
   1-35              (5)  a birthing center required to be licensed under
   1-36  Chapter 244 (Texas Birthing Center Licensing Act);
   1-37              (6)  a facility required to be licensed under Chapter
   1-38  245 (Texas Abortion Facility Reporting and Licensing Act); <or>
   1-39              (7)  a child care institution, foster group home,
   1-40  foster family home, and child-placing agency, for children in
   1-41  foster care or other residential care who are under the
   1-42  conservatorship of the Department of Protective and Regulatory
   1-43  Services; or
   1-44              (8)  a person providing medical or nursing care or
   1-45  services under a license or permit issued under other state law.
   1-46        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-47        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-53                                                         Austin,
   1-54  Texas
   1-55                                                         May 20, 1993
   1-56  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-57  President of the Senate
   1-58  Sir:
   1-59  We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
   1-60  referred H.B. No. 944, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-61  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-62  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-63                                                         Zaffirini,
   1-64  Chair
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   1-66                               WITNESSES
   1-67  No witnesses appeaared on H.B. No. 944.