Tex. Health & Safety Code § 552.012 · Subchapter B. INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS
CLASSIFICATION AND DEFINITION OF PATIENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A patient is classified as either indigent or nonindigent.
(b) An indigent patient is a patient who:
(1) possesses no property;
(2) has no person legally responsible for the patient's support; and
(3) is unable to reimburse the state for the costs of the patient's support, maintenance, and treatment.
(c) A nonindigent patient is a patient who:
(1) possesses property from which the state may be reimbursed for the costs of the patient's support, maintenance, and treatment; or
(2) has a person legally responsible for the patient's support.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.552.htm
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- 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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