26 Tex. Admin. Code § 504.22 - Fees
(a) Fees for an abortion facility license for
all initial, change of ownership, change of physical location, and renewal
applications are $5,000.
(b) The
commission shall not consider an application as officially submitted until the
applicant pays the applicable licensing fee. The fee shall accompany the
application form.
(c) A license fee
paid to the commission is not refundable.
(d) Any remittance submitted to the
commission in payment of a required license fee shall be in the form of a
certified check, money order, or personal check made payable to the Texas
Health and Human Services Commission.
(e) For all applications, the commission is
authorized to collect subscription and convenience fees, in amounts determined
by the TexasOnline Authority, to recover costs associated with application and
renewal application processing through TexasOnline, in accordance with
Government Code, §
2054.111.
(f) The commission may make periodic reviews
of its license fee schedule to ensure that the fees imposed are in amounts
reasonable and necessary to defray the cost to the commission of administering
the Act.
(g) The commission shall
impose an annual assessment as follows.
(1) In
addition to application fees, the commission shall impose on each facility an
annual assessment in amounts reasonable and necessary to defray
costs.
(2) The annual assessment
shall fall into one of three categories based on the facility's three-year
history:
(A) Facilities for which the annual
average of reported abortions is less than 1,000 or facilities applying for an
initial license;
(B) Facilities for
which the annual average of reported abortions is from 1,000 to
2,999;
(C) Facilities for which the
annual average of reported abortions is 3,000 or more.
(3) Facilities identified in each category
shall be assessed a proportionate share of the costs.
(4) Facilities applying for an initial
license shall submit the assessment at the same time as the application
fee.
(5) The commission shall
notify each licensee of the amount of the annual assessment by the first day of
April for each year.
(6) The annual
assessment shall be received by the commission no later than the first day of
June for each year.
(7) A licensee
who fails to pay the annual assessment fee shall be subject to denial,
revocation, probation, or suspension of a license as prescribed in §
139.32 of this title (relating to License Denial, Suspension, Probation, or
Revocation).
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