Bill Text: TX HB4298 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the licensing of satellite offices of outpatient chemical dependency care facilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4298 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4298-Introduced.html

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By: Murr H.B. No. 4298

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. Title 6, Subtitle B., Chapter 464 of the 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.
(9) a satellite office or location in which the person
providing services is operating under the auspices of a licensed
outpatient care facility and the services delivered at the
satellite site fall into the scope of the licensure of the
outpatient care facility.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.