Sec. 11.004. COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY OF DEPARTMENT

(a) The department is composed of the board, the commissioner, an administrative staff, the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, the Rio Grande State Center, and other officers and employees necessary to perform efficiently its powers and duties.

(b) The department is the state agency with primary responsibility for providing health services, including:

(1) disease prevention;

(2) health promotion;

(3) indigent health care;

(4) certain acute care services;

(5) health care facility regulation, excluding long-term care facilities;

(6) licensing of certain health professions; and

(7) other health-related services as provided by law.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 747, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 107, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 263, Sec. 1, eff. May 22, 2001. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 650 , Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009.