Tex. Health & Safety Code § 65.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER; PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter does not establish an entitlement to assistance in obtaining benefits for uninsured individuals.
(b) The purpose of this chapter is to establish a program to provide uninsured individuals access to prescription drug benefits using money from the fund to pay an amount equal to the value of a prescription drug rebate at the point of sale and returning that rebate amount to the fund to ensure the amounts credited to the fund equal the amounts paid from the fund.
(c) This chapter does not expand the Medicaid program.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 626 (H.B. 18), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.65.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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