Tex. Educ. Code § 74.603 · Subchapter K. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT TYLER
SERVICE AS STATE CHEST HOSPITAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler serves as a state chest hospital under Subchapter B, Chapter 13, Health and Safety Code, among other functions, for tuberculosis patients sent by the Texas Department of Health.
(b) Sections 13.034 and 13.044, Health and Safety Code, do not apply to the center.
(c) It is the intent of the legislature that:
(1) The University of Texas System shall provide and pay for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients in The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler from funds appropriated to the center for that purpose;
(2) The University of Texas System shall honor and perform all contracts in existence on September 1, 1977, entered into by, for, or on behalf of the center, including contracts related to the training and education of osteopathic resident physicians at the center; and
(3) if additional contracts are required to provide for the care and treatment of outpatients, The University of Texas System shall, as appropriate:
(A) pay for the care and treatment from funds appropriated for that purpose; or
(B) transfer to the Texas Department of Health, out of funds appropriated to the center for that purpose, money to pay for the care and treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.74.htm
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 13, subch. BTEXAS TUBERCULOSIS CODEPrinted as Subchapter B, Chapter 13, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 13.034DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONER AND DEPARTMENT.Printed as Sections 13.034 and 13.044, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 13.044PRIVATE ACCOMMODATIONS.Printed as Sections 13.034 and 13.044, Health and Safety Code
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