By Madla S.B. No. 725
75R2268 SAW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the qualification of a personal care facility as a
1-3 community home.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 123.004, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 123.004. QUALIFICATION AS COMMUNITY HOME. To qualify
1-8 as a community home, an entity must[: (1)] comply with Sections
1-9 123.005 through 123.008[;] and [(2)] be:
1-10 (1) a community-based residential home operated by:
1-11 (A) the Texas Department of Mental Health and
1-12 Mental Retardation;
1-13 (B) a community center organized under
1-14 Subchapter A, Chapter 534, Health and Safety Code [Section 3.01,
1-15 Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act (Article 5547-203,
1-16 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], that provides services to persons
1-17 with disabilities;
1-18 (C) an entity subject to the Texas Non-Profit
1-19 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-20 Statutes); or
1-21 (D) an entity certified by the Texas Department
1-22 of Human Services as a provider under the medical assistance
1-23 program serving persons in intermediate care facilities for persons
1-24 with mental retardation; or
2-1 (2) a personal care facility licensed under Chapter
2-2 247, Health and Safety Code.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.