87R9543 MCF-D
 
  By: Paxton S.B. No. 1060
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the issuance of a temporary license for an assisted
  living facility that has a corporate change in ownership.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 247.021(h), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (h)  The commission shall [department may] automatically
  issue a temporary [provisional] license to an existing facility
  licensed under this chapter that has [in the case of] a corporate
  change of ownership in the [of a] facility.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2022, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt rules necessary to implement the changes in law made by this
  Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.