Tex. Health & Safety Code § 248.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EXEMPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a home and community support services agency required to be licensed under Chapter 142;
(2) a person required to be licensed under Chapter 241 (Texas Hospital Licensing Law);
(3) an institution required to be licensed under Chapter 242;
(4) an ambulatory surgical center required to be licensed under Chapter 243 (Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Act);
(5) a birthing center required to be licensed under Chapter 244 (Texas Birthing Center Licensing Act);
(6) a facility required to be licensed under Chapter 245 (Texas Abortion Facility Reporting and Licensing Act);
(7) a general residential operation, foster group home, foster home, and child-placing agency, for children in foster care or other residential care who are under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services; or
(8) a person providing medical or nursing care or services under a license or permit issued under other state law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 115, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 504, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 800, Sec. 29, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0728, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.248.htm
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- 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
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 142HOME AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICESPrinted as Chapter 142
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 241HOSPITALSPrinted as Chapter 241
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 242CONVALESCENT AND NURSING FACILITIES AND RELATED INSTITUTIONSPrinted as Chapter 242
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 243AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTERSPrinted as Chapter 243
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 244BIRTHING CENTERSPrinted as Chapter 244
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 245ABORTION FACILITIESPrinted as Chapter 245
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