Bill Text: TX HB4057 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of an administrative penalty that may be assessed against an assisted living facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Human Services [HB4057 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4057-Introduced.html
86R13945 SRA-F | ||
By: Davis of Dallas | H.B. No. 4057 |
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relating to the amount of an administrative penalty that may be | ||
assessed against an assisted living facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 247.0451(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Section 247.0452(c), the penalty | ||
may not exceed: | ||
(1) $5,000 for each violation committed by or in | ||
relation to an assisted living facility with at least 17 beds that: | ||
(A) represents a pattern of violation that | ||
results in actual harm or is widespread in scope and results in | ||
actual harm; or | ||
(B) constitutes an immediate threat to the health | ||
or safety of a resident; | ||
(2) $1,000 for each violation committed by or in | ||
relation to an assisted living facility with fewer than 17 beds | ||
that: | ||
(A) represents a pattern of violation that | ||
results in actual harm or is widespread in scope and results in | ||
actual harm; or | ||
(B) constitutes an immediate threat to the health | ||
or safety of a resident; or | ||
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an administrative penalty for which notice of violation under | ||
Section 247.0453(c), Health and Safety Code, is given on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. An administrative penalty for which | ||
notice of violation under Section 247.0453(c), Health and Safety | ||
Code, is given before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law as it existed immediately before that date, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for this purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |