Tex. Health & Safety Code § 263.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
TWO OR MORE COUNTIES MAY JOIN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Two or more adjacent counties may act together to carry out the purposes of this chapter and construct one or more hospitals for their joint use as provided by this chapter for a single county if:
(1) each of the counties has fewer than 15,000 inhabitants; and
(2) the executive commissioner approves.
(b) The counties acting together have the same powers and liabilities under this chapter as a single county.
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. 3.0821, 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.263.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 68db426f0e063b5dab4167de623b06badf99bb440b76c3b727e58d8169b76709
- 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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