H.B. No. 4298
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the licensing of satellite offices of outpatient
  chemical dependency care facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 464.003, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 464.003.  EXEMPTIONS. This subchapter does not apply
  to:
               (1)  a facility maintained or operated by the federal
  government;
               (2)  a facility directly operated by the state;
               (3)  a facility licensed by the department under
  Chapter 241, 243, 248, 466, or 577;
               (4)  an educational program for intoxicated drivers;
               (5)  the individual office of a private, licensed
  health care practitioner who personally renders private individual
  or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license
  and in the practitioner's office;
               (6)  an individual who personally provides counseling
  or support services to a person with a chemical dependency but does
  not offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment
  program;
               (7)  a 12-step or similar self-help chemical dependency
  recovery program:
                     (A)  that does not offer or purport to offer a
  chemical dependency treatment program;
                     (B)  that does not charge program participants;
  and
                     (C)  in which program participants may maintain
  anonymity; [or]
               (8)  a juvenile justice facility or juvenile justice
  program, as defined by Section 261.405, Family Code; or
               (9)  a satellite office or location in which the person
  providing services is operating under the supervision of a licensed
  outpatient care facility and the services delivered at the
  satellite site fall within the scope of the licensure of the
  outpatient care facility.
         SECTION 2.  The Department of State Health Services is
  required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
  legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If
  the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
  purpose, the department may, but is not required to, implement a
  provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4298 was passed by the House on May 8,
  2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 4298 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 1,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4298 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor