Tex. Health and Safety Code § 242.186
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 242.186, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 242.186. SUSPENSION.
Official statutory text
(a) The department may require an institution to cease providing respite care if the department determines that the respite care does not meet the standards required by this chapter and that the institution cannot comply with those standards in the respite care it provides.
(b) The department may suspend the license of an institution that continues to provide respite care after receiving a written order from the department to cease.
(b) The department may suspend the license of an institution that continues to provide respite care after receiving a written order from the department to cease.
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