By: Ratliff S.B. No. 35
73R937 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Human Services
1-3 to obtain criminal conviction records of employees of certain
1-4 providers of services to the elderly or persons with disabilities.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 106.001, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 106.001. Definitions. In this chapter, "facility"
1-9 means:
1-10 (1) a nursing home, custodial care home, or other
1-11 institution licensed by the Texas Department of Health under
1-12 Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code;
1-13 (2) a personal care facility licensed by the Texas
1-14 Department of Health under Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, or
1-15 under Article 4442c-4, Revised Statutes<, if S.B. No. 487, Acts of
1-16 the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, becomes law>;
1-17 (3) a home health agency licensed by the Texas
1-18 Department of Health under Chapter 142, Health and Safety Code;
1-19 (4) an adult day care facility or adult day health
1-20 care facility licensed by the Texas Department of Health under
1-21 Chapter 103 <of this code>;
1-22 (5) a facility for the mentally retarded licensed by
1-23 the Texas Department of Health; <or>
1-24 (6) an unlicensed attendant care agency that contracts
2-1 with the Texas Department of Human Services;
2-2 (7) an adult foster care provider that contracts with
2-3 the Texas Department of Human Services; or
2-4 (8) a medical transportation service provider that
2-5 contracts with the Texas Department of Human Services to provide
2-6 services to the elderly or persons with disabilities.
2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.