Tex. Educ. Code § 51.952 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing board of a medical and dental unit may require a student enrolled at a medical and dental unit to have in effect during the calendar year of enrollment a health insurance policy for health care services received by the student.
(b) The governing board of a medical and dental unit shall determine the minimum coverage standards for health insurance required under this section.
(c) If the student agrees in writing, the medical and dental unit shall provide a reasonable estimate of the cost of the health insurance coverage within the student's cost of education for financial aid purposes.
(d) If a governing board of a medical and dental unit requires health insurance coverage for students under Subsection (a), a student may be provisionally enrolled at the medical and dental unit for one academic session without the coverage in order to allow the student time to obtain the coverage.
(e) The governing board of a medical and dental unit may adopt such other rules and regulations as it determines necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(f) In this section, "governing board" and "medical and dental unit" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 711, Sec. 1, eff. June 13, 2001. Renumbered from Education Code, Sec. 51.961 by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1275, Sec. 2(30), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.51.htm
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