By Luna, Berlanga, et al. H.B. No. 3171
74R8646 JJT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the exemption of certain chemical dependency programs
1-3 from licensure requirements.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 464.003, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 464.003. EXEMPTIONS. This subchapter does not apply
1-8 to:
1-9 (1) a facility maintained or operated by the federal
1-10 government;
1-11 (2) a facility directly operated by the state;
1-12 (3) a facility licensed by the Texas Department of
1-13 Mental Health and Mental Retardation;
1-14 (4) an educational program for intoxicated drivers;
1-15 (5) the individual office of a private, licensed
1-16 health care practitioner who personally renders private individual
1-17 or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license
1-18 and in the practitioner's office; <or>
1-19 (6) an individual who personally provides counseling
1-20 or support services to a chemically dependent person but does not
1-21 offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment program;
1-22 or
1-23 (7) a 12-step or similar self-help chemical dependency
1-24 recovery program:
2-1 (A) that does not offer or purport to offer a
2-2 chemical dependency treatment program;
2-3 (B) that does not charge program participants;
2-4 and
2-5 (C) in which program participants may maintain
2-6 anonymity.
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.