By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 2691
       74R7646 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the licensing of certain personal care homes.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 247.002(3), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (3)  "Personal care facility" means an establishment,
    1-7  including a board and care home, that<:>
    1-8                    <(A)  furnishes>, in one or more facilities,
    1-9  furnishes food and shelter and provides personal care services to:
   1-10                    (A)  four or more persons who are unrelated to
   1-11  the proprietor of the establishment; or <and>
   1-12                    (B)  one or more persons who are unrelated to the
   1-13  proprietor of the establishment if the proprietor receives
   1-14  reimbursement from the state Medicaid program for the care of one
   1-15  or more of those persons <provides personal care services>.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  A
   1-17  person who was not required to obtain a license under Chapter 247,
   1-18  Health and Safety Code, as it existed immediately before the
   1-19  effective date of this Act, is not required to obtain a license
   1-20  under that chapter until January 1, 1996.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.