Texas Health And Safety Code Title 7, Chapter 552 - State Hospitals

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 552.001 - Hospital Districts
  (a) The department shall divide the state into hospital districts. (b) The department may change the districts. (c) The department shall designate the state hospitals...
• Texas Section 552.0011 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(104), eff. April 2, 2015. (2) "Department" means the Department of...

SUBCHAPTER B INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS

• Texas Section 552.0012 - Study Regarding New Location For Austin State Hospital
  (a) The commission, in coordination with the department, the General Land Office, and the Texas Facilities Commission, shall conduct a study to determine the feasibility,...
• Texas Section 552.012 - Classification And Definition Of Patients
  (a) A patient is classified as either indigent or nonindigent. (b) An indigent patient is a patient who: (1) possesses no property; (2) has no...
• Texas Section 552.013 - Support Of Indigent And Nonindigent Patients
  (a) A person may not be denied services under this subtitle because of an inability to pay for the services. (b) The state shall support,...
• Texas Section 552.014 - Child Support Payments For Benefit Of Patient
  (a) Child support payments for the benefit of a patient paid or owed by a parent under court order are considered the property and estate...
• Texas Section 552.015 - Investigation To Determine Means Of Support
  (a) The department may demand and conduct an investigation in a county court to determine whether a patient possesses or is entitled to property or...
• Texas Section 552.016 - Fees
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the department may not charge a fee that exceeds the cost to the state to support, maintain, and...
• Texas Section 552.017 - Sliding Fee Schedule
  (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish a sliding fee schedule for the payment by the patient's parents of the state's total costs for...
• Texas Section 552.018 - Trust Principals
  (a) If a patient is the beneficiary of a trust that has an aggregate principal of $250,000 or less, the corpus or income of the...
• Texas Section 552.019 - Filing Of Claims
  (a) A county or district attorney shall, on the written request of the department, represent the state in filing a claim in probate court or...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT RELATING TO STATE

• Texas Section 552.020 - Application
  Except as provided by Subchapter C, Chapter 73, Education Code, this subchapter does not apply to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center....
• Texas Section 552.051 - Reports Of Illegal Drug Use; Policy
  The executive commissioner shall adopt a policy requiring a state hospital employee who knows or reasonably suspects that another state hospital employee is illegally using...
• Texas Section 552.052 - State Hospital Employee Training
  (a) Before a state hospital employee begins to perform the employee's duties without direct supervision, the department shall provide the employee with competency training and...
• Texas Section 552.053 - Information Management, Reporting, And Tracking System
  The department shall develop an information management, reporting, and tracking system for each state hospital to provide the department with information necessary to monitor serious...

SUBCHAPTER D INSPECTOR GENERAL DUTIES

• Texas Section 552.054 - Risk Assessment Protocols
  The department shall develop risk assessment protocols for state hospital employees for use in identifying and assessing possible instances of abuse or neglect. Added by...
• Texas Section 552.101 - Assisting Law Enforcement Agencies With Certain Investigations
  The inspector general shall employ and commission peace officers for the purpose of assisting a state or local law enforcement agency in the investigation of...
• Texas Section 552.102 - Summary Report
  (a) The inspector general shall prepare a summary report for each investigation conducted with the assistance of the inspector general under this subchapter. The inspector...
• Texas Section 552.103 - Annual Status Report
  (a) The inspector general shall prepare an annual status report of the inspector general's activities under this subchapter. The annual report may not contain personally...
• Texas Section 552.104 - Retaliation Prohibited
  The department or a state hospital may not retaliate against a department employee, a state hospital employee, or any other person who in good faith...

Last modified: September 28, 2016