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.