By Madla S.B. No. 983
76R6758 MCK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a branch office of a home health or personal assistance
1-3 services agency.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 142.001(5), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (5) "Branch office" means a facility or site within
1-8 150 miles of [in] the [geographical area served by a] home and
1-9 community support agency where home health or personal assistance
1-10 services are delivered or active client records are maintained.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 142.008(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The department may issue a branch office license to a
1-14 person who:
1-15 (1) holds a license to provide home health or personal
1-16 assistance services; and
1-17 (2) provides home health or personal assistance
1-18 services within 150 miles of the license holder's place of
1-19 business.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.