DEFINITIONS
Known as the Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Act
The act spans §§ 243–243 (18 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Whole Woman's Health v. Cole (2015)
Most recently applied in Whole Woman's Health v. David Lakey (June 2015)
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In this chapter:
(1) "Ambulatory surgical center" means a facility that operates primarily to provide surgical services to patients who do not require overnight hospital care.
(2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services.
(3) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, or association.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.