Tex. Health & Safety Code § 552.013 · Subchapter B. INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS
SUPPORT OF INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not be denied services under this subtitle because of an inability to pay for the services.
(b) The state shall support, maintain, and treat indigent and nonindigent patients at the expense of the state.
(c) The state is entitled to reimbursement for the support, maintenance, and treatment of a nonindigent patient.
(d) A patient who does not own a sufficient estate shall be maintained at the expense:
(1) of the patient's spouse, if able to do so; or
(2) if the patient is younger than 18 years of age, of the patient's father or mother, if able to do so.
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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