1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulation of certain 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.  FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH ALZHEIMER'S

 1-7     DISEASE.  (a)  The board by rule shall establish a classification

 1-8     and license for a facility that advertises, markets, or otherwise

 1-9     promotes that the facility provides personal care services to

1-10     residents who have Alzheimer's disease or related disorders.  A

1-11     facility is not required to be classified under this section to

1-12     provide care or treatment to residents who have Alzheimer's disease

1-13     or related disorders.

1-14           (b)  The board shall adopt minimum standards for a personal

1-15     care facility classified under this section.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.  The

1-17     Texas Board of Human Services shall adopt rules required under

1-18     Section 247.029, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, not

1-19     later than December 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2510 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2510 on May 16, 1997, by a non-record

         vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2510 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 12, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor