Sec. 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.