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	repealed.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.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor