81R10570 JSC-D
 
  By: Carona S.B. No. 1932
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the licensing requirements of hospitals providing
  outpatient dialysis services to a person relocated because of a
  disaster.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 251.012, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 251.012.  EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENT.  The
  following facilities are not required to be licensed under this
  chapter:
               (1)  a home and community support services agency
  licensed under Chapter 142 with a home dialysis designation;
               (2)  a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 that
  provides dialysis only to:
                     (A)  individuals receiving inpatient services
  from the hospital; or
                     (B)  individuals receiving outpatient services
  from the hospital who are temporarily relocated due to a disaster
  declared by the governor or a federal disaster declared by the
  president of the United States occurring in this state or another
  state; or
               (3)  the office of a physician unless the office is used
  primarily as an end stage renal disease facility.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to dialysis services provided on or after the effective date of this
  Act. Dialysis services provided before the effective date of this
  Act are covered by the law in effect immediately before that date,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2009.