By: Carona S.B. No. 1932
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the licensing requirements of hospitals temporarily
providing outpatient dialysis services to a person 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 temporarily receiving outpatient
services from the hospital 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 during the
term of the disaster declaration; 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.