H.B. No. 4298
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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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4298 was passed by the House on May 8,
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 4298 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4298 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor