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Damage or Destruction of Employee’s Personal Property
Payment for Employee Medical Expenses

A state agency, with specific appropriation authority, may pay for drugs and medical, hospital and laboratory expenses of an employee who is injured or killed while performing official state business, or whose duties require him/her to be exposed to unavoidable dangers. In addition, a state agency may pay for the repair or replacement of employees’ medically-related personal property, such as eyeglasses.

The following agencies have a specific appropriation to use funds to pay for drugs and medical, hospital, laboratory and funeral expenses:

  • The Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and Protective Services and the Health and Human Services Commission (limited to $500 per employee per incident for the repair or replacement of medically prescribed equipment that is damaged or destroyed in the course and scope of employment).
  • The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (limited to paying necessary medical expenses, including the cost of broken eyeglasses and other health aids).
  • The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (limited to medically prescribed equipment such as eyeglasses and hearing aids).
  • The Texas School for the Deaf (limited to medically prescribed equipment such as eyeglasses and hearing aids).
  • The Department of Public Safety.

See also: Funeral Expenses.

Documentation Requirements [+]

A state agency must retain documentation in its files showing how the requirements described in this section have been satisfied.

Sources [+]

Texas Government Code, Section 659.061; Texas attorney general opinion C-706 (1966); Article II, Section 3 of the General Appropriations Act (Special Provisions Relating to All Health and Human Services Agencies); Rider 12 in the appropriations to the Department of Public Safety in the General Appropriations Act; Rider 10 in the appropriations to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in the General Appropriations Act; Rider 1 in the Special Provisions for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Texas School for the Deaf in Article III of the General Appropriations Act.