1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 725
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1997; February 26, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; March 19, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 19, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the qualification of a personal care facility as a
1-9 community home.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 123.004, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 123.004. QUALIFICATION AS COMMUNITY HOME. To qualify
1-14 as a community home, an entity must[: (1)] comply with Sections
1-15 123.005 through 123.008[;] and [(2)] be:
1-16 (1) a community-based residential home operated by:
1-17 (A) the Texas Department of Mental Health and
1-18 Mental Retardation;
1-19 (B) a community center organized under
1-20 Subchapter A, Chapter 534, Health and Safety Code [Section 3.01,
1-21 Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act (Article 5547-203,
1-22 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], that provides services to persons
1-23 with disabilities;
1-24 (C) an entity subject to the Texas Non-Profit
1-25 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-26 Statutes); or
1-27 (D) an entity certified by the Texas Department
1-28 of Human Services as a provider under the medical assistance
1-29 program serving persons in intermediate care facilities for persons
1-30 with mental retardation; or
1-31 (2) a personal care facility licensed under Chapter
1-32 247, Health and Safety Code.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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