Bill Text: TX HB1971 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1971 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB1971

Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program conducted by the Department of Aging and Disability Services to authorize certain accreditation surveys of assisted living facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1971 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1971-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1971




	AN ACT
	relating to a pilot program conducted by the Department of Aging and
	Disability Services to authorize certain accreditation surveys of
	assisted living facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 247, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 247.033 to read as follows:
	Sec. 247.033. ACCREDITATION SURVEY PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The
	department may develop and implement a pilot program to authorize
	the use of an accreditation survey that complies with Section
	247.032(b) to fulfill the requirements for a life and safety code
	survey or inspection or another survey or inspection required by
	this subchapter. If the department implements the pilot program,
	the department may implement the pilot program with the goal that
	not later than August 31, 2014, at least one assisted living
	facility will have used an accreditation survey for the purposes of
	this section. The accreditation commission's standards must meet
	or exceed the assisted living facility licensing requirements
	established by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
	Services Commission as required by Section 247.032(b)(1).
	(b) This section expires September 1, 2015.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1971 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1971 was passed by the Senate on May
	20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor