Bill Text: TX SB2116 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a revision of rules applicable to hospital construction by the Department of State Health Services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-28 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2116 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2116-Introduced.html
2017S0450-1 03/09/17 | ||
By: Seliger | S.B. No. 2116 |
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relating to a revision of rules applicable to hospital construction | ||
by the Department of State Health Services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The Department of State Health Services | ||
shall review rules adopted under 25 T.A.C. Part 1, Chapter 133 | ||
(Hospital Licensing), Subchapter I (Physical Plant and | ||
Construction Requirements), and revise those rules as necessary to | ||
conform to current best practices in hospital construction. The | ||
revision shall include the repeal or amendment of rules that are | ||
obsolete, redundant, unreasonably burdensome, or otherwise | ||
ineffective. | ||
(b) The repeal or amendment of a rule described by | ||
Subsection (a) of this section shall be made in compliance with | ||
state and federal law. | ||
(c) The revision required by Subsection (a) of this section | ||
shall be completed not later than December 31, 2017. | ||
(d) This section expires January 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |