Texas Health and Safety Code
§ 13.044 — PRIVATE ACCOMMODATIONS
HS § 13.044Title 2. HEALTH · Part A. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES · Ch. 13. DEPARTMENT HOSPITALS AND RESPIRATORY FACILITIES · Art. B. TEXAS TUBERCULOSIS CODE
Statute text
View on source(a)On the request of any charitable organization in this state, the department may permit the erection, furnishing, and maintenance by the charitable organization of accommodations on the grounds of a public health hospital for persons who have tuberculosis and who are:
(1)members of the charitable organization;
(2)members of the families of persons who are members of the charitable organization; or
(3)surviving spouses or minor children of deceased persons who are members of the charitable organization.
(b)The accommodations shall be reserved for the preferential use of persons described by Subsection (a).
(c)The state may not incur any expense in the erection, furnishing, and maintenance of the accommodations. The charitable organization that enters a patient under this section may be required to pay the pro rata part of the maintenance costs of that patient that is found to be just and equitable, pending the next legislative appropriation for the maintenance of state chest hospitals. Any part of the accommodations not used by persons described by Subsection (a) may be used, at the discretion of the hospital administrator, by other patients in the hospital without charge to the state.
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Legislative history
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0063, eff. April 2, 2015.