Bill Text: TX SB335 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 335 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from regulation as health spas for certain governmental hospitals and clinics.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB335 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB335-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 335




	AN ACT
	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. Subdivision (4), Section 702.003, 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; [or]
	(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.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 335 passed the Senate on
	March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 335 passed the House on
	May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor