The department is exempt from the payment of a fee otherwise required or authorized by law to obtain a medical record from a hospital or health care provider if the request for a record is made in the course of an investigation by the department.
Tex. Fam. Code § 261.316
EXEMPTION FROM FEES FOR MEDICAL RECORDS
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 575, Sec. 17, eff
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