Tex. Health & Safety Code § 242.311 · Subchapter I. NURSING FACILITY ADMINISTRATION
LICENSE APPLICATION; QUALIFICATIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An applicant for a nursing facility administrator's license must submit a sworn application that is accompanied by the application fee.
(b) The board shall prescribe the form of the application and may by rule establish dates by which applications and fees must be received.
(c) An applicant for a nursing facility administrator's license must take a licensing examination under this subchapter. To qualify for the licensing examination, the applicant must have satisfactorily completed a course of instruction and training prescribed by the board that is conducted by or in cooperation with an accredited postsecondary educational institution and that is designed and administered to provide sufficient knowledge of:
(1) the needs served by nursing facilities;
(2) the laws governing the operation of nursing facilities and the protection of the interests of facility residents; and
(3) the elements of nursing facility administration.
(d) An applicant who has not completed the course of instruction and training described by Subsection (c) must present evidence satisfactory to the board of having completed sufficient education, training, and experience in the fields described by Subsection (c) to enable the applicant to engage in the practice of nursing facility administration.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1280, Sec. 2.01.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.242.htm
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- sha256 116ab4583baa2b1eafc5d99b2e93037ddbbe1230acfc781208d7a0aeb995a6de
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 242.311; this is the one the Council prints in hs.242.htm
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