Tex. Health & Safety Code § 282.050 · Subchapter C. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
PROVISION OF HOSPITAL SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The district shall provide adequate hospital services for the district. A person who resides in the district is entitled to receive those services at available district hospital facilities at a rate determined by the board and in any manner the board considers expedient or necessary under existing conditions. The district may provide the services in hospitals located outside the district.
(b) The district may furnish hospital services to a person who does not reside in the district at a reasonable and fair rate the board considers proper, but the district shall give priority to a district resident in the provision of hospital services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.282.htm
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