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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