Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.681 · Subchapter X. INFORMATION REGARDING RISK OF IMPAIRED FERTILITY FROM CANCER TREATMENTS
NOTICE FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health care facility at which a child will begin receiving chemotherapy or radiation that may directly or indirectly cause impaired fertility must, before the treatment begins, notify the child's parents or legal guardians of the risk of impaired fertility from treatment.
(b) The department shall develop and make available a written notice for a health care facility to use for purposes of this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 819 (H.B. 1649), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.161.htm
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