Bill Text: TX SB1614 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring emergency generators or other power sources in nursing facilities and assisted living facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Co-author authorized [SB1614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1614-Introduced.html
| 2021S0138-1 03/02/21 | ||
| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1614 | |
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| relating to requiring emergency generators or other power sources | ||
| in nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 242, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 242.053 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 242.053. EMERGENCY GENERATOR OR OTHER POWER SOURCE. | ||
| Each nursing facility licensed under this chapter shall ensure that | ||
| the facility is equipped with an operational emergency generator or | ||
| comparable emergency power source and a sufficient amount of fuel | ||
| to operate the generator or power source and maintain the air | ||
| temperature in the facility at not less than 68 degrees and not more | ||
| than 81 degrees Fahrenheit for a minimum of 72 hours during a power | ||
| outage. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 247.072 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 247.072. EMERGENCY GENERATOR OR OTHER POWER SOURCE. | ||
| Each assisted living facility licensed under this chapter shall | ||
| ensure that the facility is equipped with an operational emergency | ||
| generator or comparable emergency power source and a sufficient | ||
| amount of fuel to operate the generator or power source and maintain | ||
| the air temperature in the facility at not less than 68 degrees and | ||
| not more than 81 degrees Fahrenheit for a minimum of 72 hours during | ||
| a power outage. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| Sections 242.053 and 247.072, Health and Safety Code, as added by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2021. | ||
