Tex. Health & Safety Code § 254.052 · Subchapter B. LICENSING
EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The following facilities are not required to be licensed under this chapter:
(1) an office or clinic owned and operated by a manufacturing facility solely for the purposes of treating its employees and contractors;
(2) temporary emergency clinics in disaster areas;
(3) an office or clinic of a licensed physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist;
(4) a licensed nursing home;
(5) a licensed hospital;
(6) a hospital that is owned and operated by this state;
(7) a facility located within or connected to a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6);
(8) a facility that is owned or operated by a hospital described by Subsection (5) or (6) and is:
(A) surveyed as a service of the hospital by an organization that has been granted deeming authority as a national accreditation program for hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or
(B) granted provider-based status by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or
(9) a licensed ambulatory surgical center.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273 (H.B. 1357), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.254.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
Cited by 6 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 254.052. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 108.002DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 254.052(8)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 241.201APPLICABILITY.Printed as Section 254.052(7)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 241.221APPLICABILITY.Printed as Section 254.052(5)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 241.251APPLICABILITY.Printed as Section 254.052(8)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 254.051LICENSE REQUIRED.Printed as Section 254.052
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 324.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 254.052(8)
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