Bill Text: TX HB812 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the amount of the health care services fee paid by certain inmates.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB812 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB812-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 812

AN ACT
relating to the amount of the health care services fee paid by
certain inmates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 501.063(a)(1), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) An inmate confined in a facility operated by or
under contract with the department, other than a halfway house, who
initiates a visit to a health care provider shall pay a health care
services fee to the department in the amount of $13.55 per visit,
except that an inmate may not be required to pay more than $100
during a state fiscal year [$100].
SECTION 2. Section 501.063(a)(2), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 812 was passed by the House on April
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 812 on May 17, 2019, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 812 on May 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 812 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
812 on May 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor