88R14403 SRA-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2224
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing the issuance of a special hospital license
  to certain establishments.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 241.023, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (c-4) to read as follows:
         (c-4)  The executive commissioner shall adopt rules and
  standards to allow an establishment that specializes in providing
  services to infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome to
  be licensed as a special hospital under this section.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2023, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt the rules and standards necessary to implement Section
  241.023(c-4), Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.