By: Murr (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 4298
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2019;
  May 10, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
  Human Services; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
  May 20, 2019, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 4298 By:  Perry
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the licensing of satellite offices of outpatient
  chemical dependency care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 464.003, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 464.003.  EXEMPTIONS. This subchapter does not apply
  to:
               (1)  a facility maintained or operated by the federal
  government;
               (2)  a facility directly operated by the state;
               (3)  a facility licensed by the department under
  Chapter 241, 243, 248, 466, or 577;
               (4)  an educational program for intoxicated drivers;
               (5)  the individual office of a private, licensed
  health care practitioner who personally renders private individual
  or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license
  and in the practitioner's office;
               (6)  an individual who personally provides counseling
  or support services to a person with a chemical dependency but does
  not offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment
  program;
               (7)  a 12-step or similar self-help chemical dependency
  recovery program:
                     (A)  that does not offer or purport to offer a
  chemical dependency treatment program;
                     (B)  that does not charge program participants;
  and
                     (C)  in which program participants may maintain
  anonymity; [or]
               (8)  a juvenile justice facility or juvenile justice
  program, as defined by Section 261.405, Family Code; or
               (9)  a satellite office or location in which the person
  providing services is operating under the supervision of a licensed
  outpatient care facility and the services delivered at the
  satellite site fall within the scope of the licensure of the
  outpatient care facility.
         SECTION 2.  The Department of State Health Services is
  required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
  legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If
  the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
  purpose, the department may, but is not required to, implement a
  provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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