By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 281
       73R3256 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exempting certain facilities from licensure 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)  an establishment conducted by or for the adherents
   1-13  of a well-recognized church or religious denomination for the
   1-14  purpose of providing facilities for the care or treatment of the
   1-15  sick who depend exclusively on prayer or spiritual means for
   1-16  healing, without the use of any drug or material remedy, if the
   1-17  establishment complies with safety, sanitary, and quarantine laws
   1-18  and rules.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.