Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 254.052: EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENT.

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.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273 (H.B. 1357), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.

Where this section sits in the code

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES
SUBTITLE B. LICENSING OF HEALTH FACILITIES
CHAPTER 254. FREESTANDING EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER B. LICENSING

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.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1273 (H.B. 1357), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.

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