Sec. 242.048.  LICENSING SURVEYS.  The department shall provide a team to conduct surveys to validate findings of licensing surveys.  The purpose of validation surveys is to assure that survey teams throughout the state survey in a fair and consistent manner.  A facility subjected to a validation survey must correct deficiencies cited by the validation team but is not subject to punitive action for those deficiencies.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 90, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.