Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.021 · Subchapter C. PROVISION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO CERTAIN HEALTH CONDITIONS
AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE INFORMATION; USE OF INFORMATION; LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Unless prohibited by other law, a person, including a hospital, sanatorium, nursing facility, rest home, medical society, cancer registry, or other organization, may provide interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other information relating to the condition and treatment of any person, to be used in a study to reduce morbidity or mortality or to identify persons who may need immunization, to:
(1) the department;
(2) a person that makes inquiries under immunization surveys conducted for the department;
(3) a medical organization;
(4) a hospital;
(5) a hospital committee; or
(6) a cancer registry, including a cancer registry of a cancer treatment center.
(b) A person is not liable for damages or other relief for:
(1) providing the information;
(2) releasing or publishing the findings or conclusions to advance medical research or medical education; or
(3) releasing or publishing a general summary of those studies.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 343, Sec. 3, eff. May 27, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1411, Sec. 23.03, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0468, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.161.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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