Bill Text: TX HB760 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from regulation as health spas for certain governmental hospitals and clinics.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB760 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB760-Introduced.html
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| By: Eiland | H.B. No. 760 | |
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| relating to an exemption from regulation as health spas for certain | ||
| governmental hospitals and clinics. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 702.003(4), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (4) "Health spa" means a business that offers for | ||
| sale, or sells, memberships that provide the members instruction in | ||
| or the use of facilities for a physical exercise program. The term | ||
| does not include: | ||
| (A) an organization that is tax exempt under | ||
| Section 501 et seq., Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. Section 501 et | ||
| seq.); | ||
| (B) a private club owned and operated by its | ||
| members; | ||
| (C) an entity operated exclusively to: | ||
| (i) teach dance or aerobic exercise; or | ||
| (ii) provide physical rehabilitation | ||
| activity related to an individual's injury or disease; | ||
| (D) a person engaged in an activity authorized | ||
| under a license issued by the state; [ |
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| (E) an activity conducted or sanctioned by a | ||
| school under the Education Code; or | ||
| (F) a hospital or clinic owned or operated by an | ||
| agency of the state or federal government or by a political | ||
| subdivision of this state. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
