1-1  By:  Luna, Berlanga, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan)  H.B. No. 3171
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-3  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the exemption of certain chemical dependency programs
    1-9  from licensure requirements.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 464.003, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 464.003.  EXEMPTIONS.  This subchapter does not apply
   1-14  to:
   1-15              (1)  a facility maintained or operated by the federal
   1-16  government;
   1-17              (2)  a facility directly operated by the state;
   1-18              (3)  a facility licensed by the Texas Department of
   1-19  Mental Health and Mental Retardation;
   1-20              (4)  an educational program for intoxicated drivers;
   1-21              (5)  the individual office of a private, licensed
   1-22  health care practitioner who personally renders private individual
   1-23  or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license
   1-24  and in the practitioner's office; <or>
   1-25              (6)  an individual who personally provides counseling
   1-26  or support services to a chemically dependent person but does not
   1-27  offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment program;
   1-28  or
   1-29              (7)  a 12-step or similar self-help chemical dependency
   1-30  recovery program:
   1-31                    (A)  that does not offer or purport to offer a
   1-32  chemical dependency treatment program;
   1-33                    (B)  that does not charge program participants;
   1-34  and
   1-35                    (C)  in which program participants may maintain
   1-36  anonymity.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-42  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-43  passage, and it is so enacted.
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