Tex. Health and Safety Code § 42.005
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§ 42.005. FACILITIES.
Official statutory text
(a) The executive commissioner may establish standards for the accreditation of all facilities designed or intended to deliver care or treatment for persons with end stage renal disease, and the department shall maintain all established standards.
(b) The department may conduct surveys of existing facilities in this state that diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients with end stage renal disease and may prepare and submit its findings and a specific program of action.
(c) The department may evaluate the need to create local or regional facilities and to establish a major kidney research center.
(d) The department may:
(1) establish or construct rehabilitation facilities and workshops;
(2) make grants to public agencies and make contracts or other arrangements with public and other nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions for the establishment of workshops and rehabilitation facilities; and
(3) operate facilities to carry out this chapter.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(18), eff. April 2, 2015.
(b) The department may conduct surveys of existing facilities in this state that diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients with end stage renal disease and may prepare and submit its findings and a specific program of action.
(c) The department may evaluate the need to create local or regional facilities and to establish a major kidney research center.
(d) The department may:
(1) establish or construct rehabilitation facilities and workshops;
(2) make grants to public agencies and make contracts or other arrangements with public and other nonprofit agencies, organizations, or institutions for the establishment of workshops and rehabilitation facilities; and
(3) operate facilities to carry out this chapter.
(e) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(18), eff. April 2, 2015.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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