House Tentatively Approves Prisoner Health Care Fee — Texas Department of Criminal Justice The Texas Tribune
"The House today gave early approval to a bill that would require Texas prisoners to pay $100 a year for health care.
Current law requires inmates to make a copayment of $3 per doctor visit. HB 26, by state Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano, seeks to offset some of the prison health care costs that taxpayers now absorb by requiring inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to pay an annual fee of $100 if they use prison medical services.
For inmates who are unable to pay the fee, 50 percent of money deposited into their trust fund would be removed until the fee is covered. For indigent inmates, those with $5 or less in their trust fund, no money would be taken out."
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