By: Cain S.B. No. 422 97S0259/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the licensure of a hospital with multiple premises 1-2 under a single license and the provision of certain services by 1-3 licensed hospitals. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 241.003, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding a new Subdivision (11) and renumbering and 1-7 amending existing Subdivision (11) to read as follows: 1-8 (11) "Premises" means facilities located at the main 1-9 address of the licensee and all other facilities included under the 1-10 single license so long as they are within a 30-mile radius of the 1-11 main address of the licensee, unless the licensee shows that: 1-12 (A) the inclusion of facilities within a greater 1-13 radius would be beneficial or advantageous to its management and 1-14 operations; and 1-15 (B) the facilities are all within the same 1-16 service area. 1-17 (12) "Special hospital" means an establishment that: 1-18 (A) offers services, facilities, and beds for 1-19 use for more than 24 hours for two or more unrelated individuals 1-20 who are regularly admitted, treated, and discharged and who require 1-21 services more intensive than room, board, personal services, and 1-22 general nursing care; 1-23 (B) has clinical laboratory facilities, 2-1 diagnostic X-ray facilities, treatment facilities, or other 2-2 definitive medical, obstetrical, or surgical treatment; 2-3 (C) has a medical staff in regular attendance; 2-4 and 2-5 (D) maintains records of the clinical work 2-6 performed for each patient. 2-7 SECTION 2. Section 241.022, Health and Safety Code, is 2-8 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 2-9 (f) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require a 2-10 hospital to include offsite outpatient services in its license 2-11 application. 2-12 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.