Bill Text: TX HB2510 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to assisted living facility operations and provision of certain services to assisted living facility residents without a license; creating a criminal offense.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB2510 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2510-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2510 | ||
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| relating to assisted living facility operations and provision of | ||
| certain services to assisted living facility residents without a | ||
| license; creating a criminal offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 142.00605 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 142.00605. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES PROVIDED | ||
| WITHOUT LICENSE TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS; CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (a) A | ||
| person commits an offense if the person: | ||
| (1) is required to hold a license under this chapter; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) provides without holding the required license | ||
| personal assistance services to a resident of an assisted living | ||
| facility, as defined by Section 247.002. | ||
| (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, | ||
| except the offense is a felony of the third degree if the person has | ||
| been previously convicted of an offense under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 247.0441 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 247.0441. LICENSE REQUIRED; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) A | ||
| person commits an offense if the person operates an assisted living | ||
| facility without holding a license issued under this chapter. | ||
| (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor, | ||
| except the offense is a felony of the third degree if the person has | ||
| been previously convicted of an offense under this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2510 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 20, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2510 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
