Section 1001.113 - Payment for Treatment; Procedures(a) When a patient from Potter County or the district has been admitted to a district facility, the district administrator shall have an inquiry made into the circumstances of:(2) the patient's relatives who are legally liable for the patient's support.(b) If the district administrator determines that the patient or those relatives are liable to pay for all or part of the costs of the patient's care and treatment, the patient or those relatives shall be ordered to pay the district a specified amount for the patient's support.(c) The district administrator may collect the amount from the patient's estate, or from any relative who is legally liable for the patient's support, in the manner provided by law for the collection of expenses of the last illness of a deceased person.Tex. Spec. Dist. Loc. Laws § 1001.113
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729, Sec. 1.01, eff. 4/1/2007.