82R3877 MAW-F
By: Eiland H.B. No. 760
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exemption from regulation as health spas for certain
governmental hospitals and clinics.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 702.003(4), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(4) "Health spa" means a business that offers for
sale, or sells, memberships that provide the members instruction in
or the use of facilities for a physical exercise program. The term
does not include:
(A) an organization that is tax exempt under
Section 501 et seq., Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. Section 501 et
seq.);
(B) a private club owned and operated by its
members;
(C) an entity operated exclusively to:
(i) teach dance or aerobic exercise; or
(ii) provide physical rehabilitation
activity related to an individual's injury or disease;
(D) a person engaged in an activity authorized
under a license issued by the state; [or]
(E) an activity conducted or sanctioned by a
school under the Education Code; or
(F) a hospital or clinic owned or operated by an
agency of the state or federal government or by a political
subdivision of this state.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.