By Corte                                        H.B. No. 2181

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the application of the law relating to architectural

 1-3     barriers to certain licensed facilities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article 9102, Revised Statutes, is

 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:

 1-7           (h)  The standards adopted under this article do not apply to

 1-8     a facility in which the owner or operator of the facility is:

 1-9                 (1)  licensed to operate the facility by a state

1-10     regulatory agency; and

1-11                 (2)  required to comply with the Americans with

1-12     Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et

1-13     seq.), as a condition of licensure.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.