Tex. Health & Safety Code § 222.002 · Subchapter A. SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services.
(3) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3-a) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4) "Hospital" includes a public health center, a general hospital, or a tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, or other type of hospital, and related facilities such as a laboratory, outpatient department, nurses' home and training facility, or central service facility operated in connection with a hospital.
(5) "Public health center" means a publicly owned facility for providing public health services and includes related facilities such as a laboratory, clinic, or administrative office operated in connection with a facility for providing public health services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0566, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.222.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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