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.