{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-248a.1015","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 248A.1015","heading":"TRANSPORTATION STANDARDS.","body":"The executive commissioner by rule shall establish minimum standards for transportation services as required under Section 248A.101(b)(9). In adopting rules under this section, the executive commissioner:\n(1) shall authorize a center to determine:\n(A) in coordination with a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative, the schedule of transportation services; and\n(B) in coordination with the client's prescribing physician, the necessary type of provider who must be present during transportation;\n(2) shall permit a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative to decline a center's transportation services entirely or only on a specific date; and\n(3) may not:\n(A) require a plan of care or physician's order to document a client's need for transportation services to access a center's services; or\n(B) consider transportation services as nursing services included in a client's plan of care.\nAdded by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 862 (H.B. 3550), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES","SUBTITLE B. LICENSING OF HEALTH FACILITIES","CHAPTER 248A. PRESCRIBED PEDIATRIC EXTENDED CARE CENTERS","SUBCHAPTER C. POWERS AND DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONER, COMMISSION, AND DEPARTMENT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.248A.htm#248A.1015","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"66d14c94ae0bb00759aed7cd7c9e4bcc5992c02c1d0206313386135d055c7f47","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-248a.101","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-248a.102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}