Tex. Health & Safety Code § 491.054 · Subchapter B. ACCESS TO INDIVIDUALIZED INVESTIGATIONAL TREATMENT
ACCESS TO TREATMENT; COSTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A manufacturer operating within an eligible health care facility and in compliance with all applicable federal assurance laws and regulations may make available an individualized investigational treatment, and an eligible patient may request access to the treatment from an eligible health care facility or manufacturer operating within an eligible health care facility under this chapter.
(b) A manufacturer is not required under this chapter to make available an individualized investigational treatment to an eligible patient.
(c) An eligible health care facility or manufacturer operating within an eligible health care facility may:
(1) provide an individualized investigational treatment to an eligible patient without receiving compensation; or
(2) require an eligible patient to pay the costs of, or the costs associated with, the manufacture of the treatment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 285 (S.B. 984), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.491.V3.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 b5aac05bad41bb67f3320ce5bd0557e0f06fa839bd8a7b7a6e537af0d83958a9
- 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
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 491.054; this is the one the Council prints in hs.491.v3.htm
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