Tex. Gov't Code § 487.201 · Subchapter F. MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY-STATE MATCHING INCENTIVE PROGRAM
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Medically underserved community" means:
(A) a community located in an area in this state with a medically underserved population;
(B) a community located in an area in this state designated by the United States secretary of health and human services as an area with a shortage of personal health services;
(C) a population group designated by the United States secretary of health and human services as having a shortage of personal health services;
(D) a community designated under state or federal law as a medically underserved community; or
(E) a community that the department considers to be medically underserved based on relevant demographic, geographic, and environmental factors.
(2) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state.
(3) "Primary care" means physician services in family practice, general practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, or gynecology.
(4) "Start-up money" means a payment made by a medically underserved community for reasonable costs incurred by a physician to establish a medical office and ancillary facilities for diagnosing and treating patients.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1424, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (H.B. 1918), Sec. 44, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.487.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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