Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.0495 · Subchapter C. REPORTS AND REPORTABLE DISEASES
FAILURE TO REPORT; CIVIL PENALTY.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may impose a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 on a health care facility for each failure to submit a report required under this subchapter.
(b) The attorney general may bring an action to recover a civil penalty imposed under Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 864 (S.B. 969), Sec. 3, 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.81.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 fe60cdec76abb8ecd6727b4c1f59e6342b63005a5c86700de850dc945438972f
- 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
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.