Texas Health and Safety Code 260.001 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 260.001
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this chapter:
(1) “Assistance with self-administering medication” means assisting a resident by reminding the resident to take medication, opening and removing medications from a container, or reminding the resident when a prescription medication needs to be refilled.
(2) “Boarding home facility” means an establishment that:
(A) furnishes, in one or more buildings, lodging to three or more persons with disabilities or elderly persons who are unrelated to the owner of the establishment by blood or marriage; and
(B) provides community meals, light housework, meal preparation, transportation, grocery shopping, money management, laundry services, or assistance with self-administration of medication but does not provide personal care services as defined by § 247.002 to those persons.
(3) “Commission” means the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) “Elderly person” has the meaning assigned by § 48.002, Human Resources Code.
(5) “Executive commissioner” means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(6) “Person with a disability” means a disabled person as defined by § 48.002, Human Resources Code.
(7) “Resident” means a person who is residing in a boarding home facility.