Amend CSHB 2085 by inserting the following new ARTICLE,
appropriately numbered, and renumbering subsequent ARTICLES and
SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
      ARTICLE __. CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO ABORTION
FACILITIES
      SECTION __.01. Section 245.004, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 245.004.  EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENT.  (a)
The following facilities need not be licensed under this chapter:
      (1) a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 (Texas Hospital
Licensing Law); or
      (2) the office of a physician licensed under the Medical
Practice Act (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), unless
the office is used <primarily> for the purpose of performing more
than 300 abortions in any twelve month period.
      (b) In computing the number of abortions performed in the
office of a physician under Subsection (a)(2), an abortion
performed in accordance with Section 245.016 is not included.
      SECTION __.02.  The office of a physician that is exempt from
the licensing requirement of Chapter 245, Health and Safety Code,
under Section 245.004, Health and Safety Code, as it existed
immediately before the effective date of this Act, but that is
required to be licensed under Section 245.004, Health and Safety
Code, as amended by this Act, is not required to be licensed before
January 1, 2000.