By: White (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 812

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; April 15, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 10, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 812 By: Whitmire

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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:

(a)(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 $15 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 Section 501.063(a)(2), Government Code, is repealed.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.

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