Bill Text: TX SB502 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to registration of certain establishments providing assisted living services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB502 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB502-Introduced.html
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By: Miles | S.B. No. 502 |
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relating to registration of certain establishments providing | ||
assisted living services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subtitle B, Title 4, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBTITLE B. LICENSING AND REGULATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 247. ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES AND SIMILAR ASSISTED | ||
LIVING SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 247, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 247.072 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 247.072. REGISTRATION OF ASSISTED LIVING SERVICE | ||
ESTABLISHMENTS. (a) In this section, "assisted living service | ||
establishment" means an establishment that: | ||
(1) furnishes, in one or more facilities, food and | ||
shelter to three or fewer persons who are unrelated to the | ||
proprietor of the establishment; | ||
(2) provides: | ||
(A) personal care services; or | ||
(B) administration of medication by a person | ||
licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to administer the | ||
medication; | ||
(3) may provide assistance with or supervision of the | ||
administration of medication; and | ||
(4) may provide skilled nursing services for the | ||
following limited purposes: | ||
(A) coordination of resident care with outside | ||
home and community support services agencies and other health care | ||
professionals; | ||
(B) provision or delegation of personal care | ||
services and medication administration as described by Subdivision | ||
(2); | ||
(C) assessment of residents to determine the care | ||
required; and | ||
(D) for periods of time as established by | ||
commission rule, delivery of temporary skilled nursing treatment | ||
for a minor illness, injury, or emergency. | ||
(b) A person may not establish or operate an assisted living | ||
service establishment unless the person registers the | ||
establishment with the commission and complies with commission | ||
rules related to the establishment. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to protect the public health and safety and to implement this | ||
section. | ||
(d) A person who violates this section and rules adopted | ||
under this section is subject to the enforcement provisions of | ||
Subchapter C. | ||
SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2021, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt any rules necessary to implement Section 247.072, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding Section 247.072, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a person is not required to | ||
register an establishment to which that section applies until | ||
January 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |