Tex. Health & Safety Code § 31.004 · Chapter 31. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
ADMINISTRATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer this chapter, and the department shall administer the program in accordance with those rules.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall:
(1) establish the administrative structure of the program;
(2) establish a plan of areawide administration to provide authorized services;
(3) designate, if possible, local public and private resources as providers; and
(4) prevent duplication by coordinating authorized primary health care services with existing federal, state, and local programs.
(c) The department shall prescribe the design and content of all necessary forms used in the program.
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. 3.0069, 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.31.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 35481d6623da74814d533a0dd9a7cc18ffd1ffef81d264cc5f5e4e22ae62226c
- 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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