By Hochberg H.B. No. 1596 75R5598 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to unlicensed personal care facilities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 247, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 247.029 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 247.029. MUNICIPAL ENFORCEMENT. The governing body of 1-7 a municipality by ordinance may: 1-8 (1) prohibit a person who does not hold a license 1-9 issued under this chapter from establishing or operating a personal 1-10 care facility within the municipality; and 1-11 (2) establish a procedure for emergency closure of a 1-12 facility in circumstances in which: 1-13 (A) the facility is established or operating in 1-14 violation of Section 247.021; and 1-15 (B) the continued operation of the facility 1-16 creates an immediate threat to the health and safety of a resident 1-17 of the facility. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.