Tex. Health & Safety Code § 168.008 · Chapter 168. CARE OF STUDENTS WITH DIABETES
INDEPENDENT MONITORING AND TREATMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In accordance with the student's individualized health plan, a school shall permit the student to attend to the management and care of the student's diabetes, which may include:
(1) performing blood glucose level checks;
(2) administering insulin through the insulin delivery system the student uses;
(3) treating hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia;
(4) possessing on the student's person at any time any supplies or equipment necessary to monitor and care for the student's diabetes; and
(5) otherwise attending to the management and care of the student's diabetes in the classroom, in any area of the school or school grounds, or at any school-related activity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1022 (H.B. 984), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.168.htm
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- sha256 93c707d014b68e821b1f1029f9dc122a0fab3b7be3217aa7d179a3e8dd56df43
- Composed by
- 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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