The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote the public welfare by providing for the development, establishment and enforcement of certain standards in the maintenance and operation of ambulatory surgical facilities and abortion facilities and freestanding emergency rooms and post-acute residential brain injury rehabilitation facilities, which will ensure safe, sanitary, and reasonably adequate care of individuals in such facilities.Laws, 1983, ch. 433, § 2; Laws, 1991, ch. 301, § 2, eff. 7/1/1990 (Governor's veto overridden by Legislature on 1/17/1991).Amended by Laws, 2017, ch. 327, HB 478, 2, eff. 7/1/2017.Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 309, SB 2297, 2, eff. 7/1/2016.
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