By:  Hernandez                                        H.B. No. 2361
       73R4553 RWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exempting certain facilities from regulation under the
    1-3  Personal Care Facility Licensing Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 247.004, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 247.004.  Exemptions <Exemption>.  This chapter does not
    1-8  apply to:
    1-9              (1)  a boarding facility that has rooms for rent and
   1-10  that may offer community meals but that does not provide personal
   1-11  care services; or
   1-12              (2)  a facility conducted by or for the adherents of a
   1-13  qualified religious society as defined by Section 2(a)(5), Article
   1-14  179f, Revised Statutes, as added by Chapter 957, Acts of the 71st
   1-15  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, and its subsequent amendments
   1-16  for the purpose of providing personal care services without charge
   1-17  solely for the society's professed members or ministers in
   1-18  retirement, if the facility complies with safety, sanitation, and
   1-19  quarantine laws and rules.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.