(a) The purpose of this chapter is to implement THSC Chapter 248A, which directs the executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to adopt minimum standards that a person must meet to be licensed as a center.
(b) Except as provided by THSC §248A.002, a person may not own or operate a center unless the person holds a license issued by DADS under THSC Chapter 248A and this chapter.
(c) An applicant may not provide services under a license for which an application has been filed until DADS issues the license.

Source Note: The provisions of this §550.1 adopted to be effective September 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 6569; amended to be effective September 28, 2016, 41 TexReg 7512; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register April 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 1875