Sec. 464.003. EXEMPTIONS  


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  • This subchapter does not apply to:

    (1) a facility maintained or operated by the federal government;

    (2) a facility directly operated by the state;

    (3) a facility licensed by the Texas Department of Health;

    (4) an educational program for intoxicated drivers;

    (5) the individual office of a private, licensed health care practitioner who personally renders private individual or group services within the scope of the practitioner's license and in the practitioner's office;

    (6) an individual who personally provides counseling or support services to a chemically dependent person but does not offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment program; or

    (7) a 12-step or similar self-help chemical dependency recovery program:

    (A) that does not offer or purport to offer a chemical dependency treatment program;

    (B) that does not charge program participants; and

    (C) in which program participants may maintain anonymity.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 180, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 410, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 577, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.