Bill Text: TX HB1715 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to registration of certain establishments providing assisted living services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Referred to Human Services [HB1715 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1715-Introduced.html
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| By: Davis of Dallas | H.B. No. 1715 | |
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| relating to registration of certain establishments providing | ||
| assisted living services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subtitle B, Title 4, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBTITLE B. LICENSING AND REGULATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES | ||
| SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 247. ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES AND SIMILAR ASSISTED | ||
| LIVING SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 247.072 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 247.072. REGISTRATION OF ASSISTED LIVING SERVICE | ||
| ESTABLISHMENTS. (a) In this section, "assisted living service | ||
| establishment" means an establishment that: | ||
| (1) furnishes, in one or more facilities, food and | ||
| shelter to three or fewer persons who are unrelated to the | ||
| proprietor of the establishment; | ||
| (2) provides: | ||
| (A) personal care services; or | ||
| (B) administration of medication by a person | ||
| licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to administer the | ||
| medication; | ||
| (3) may provide assistance with or supervision of the | ||
| administration of medication; and | ||
| (4) may provide skilled nursing services for the | ||
| following limited purposes: | ||
| (A) coordination of resident care with outside | ||
| home and community support services agencies and other health care | ||
| professionals; | ||
| (B) provision or delegation of personal care | ||
| services and medication administration as described by Subdivision | ||
| (2); | ||
| (C) assessment of residents to determine the care | ||
| required; and | ||
| (D) for periods of time as established by | ||
| commission rule, delivery of temporary skilled nursing treatment | ||
| for a minor illness, injury, or emergency. | ||
| (b) A person may not establish or operate an assisted living | ||
| service establishment unless the person registers the | ||
| establishment with the commission and complies with commission | ||
| rules related to the establishment. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
| to protect the public health and safety and to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| (d) A person who violates this section and rules adopted | ||
| under this section is subject to the enforcement provisions of | ||
| Subchapter C. | ||
| SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| adopt any rules necessary to implement Section 247.072, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. Notwithstanding Section 247.072, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, a person is not required to | ||
| register an establishment to which that section applies until | ||
| January 1, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
