{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-222.022","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 222.022","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this subchapter:\n(1) \"Executive commissioner\" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.\n(2) \"Health care facility\" means a public or private hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, ambulatory surgical center, family planning clinic that performs ambulatory surgical procedures, rural or urban health initiative clinic, end stage renal disease facility, and inpatient rehabilitation facility. The term does not include the office of physicians or practitioners of the healing arts practicing individually or in groups or a chemical dependency treatment facility licensed by the Department of State Health Services under Chapter 464.\n(3) \"Inspection\" includes a survey, inspection, investigation, or other procedure necessary for a state agency to carry out an obligation imposed by federal and state laws, rules, and regulations.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0566, eff. April 2, 2015.\nActs 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 636 (H.B. 3801), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES","SUBTITLE A. FINANCING, CONSTRUCTING, REGULATING, AND INSPECTING HEALTH FACILITIES","CHAPTER 222. HEALTH CARE FACILITY SURVEY, CONSTRUCTION, INSPECTION, AND REGULATION","SUBCHAPTER B. LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND OTHER REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.222.htm#222.022","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"480fb7fa81d67c4723d09485bb0c3859f9d13defba77f6abd4a018f1e242f333","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-222.009","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-222.023"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}