Tex. Health & Safety Code § 173.008 · Chapter 173. DONATION OF HUMAN FETAL TISSUE
RECORD RETENTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Unless another law requires a longer period of record retention, an authorized facility may not dispose of any medical record relating to a woman who consents to the donation of human fetal tissue before:
(1) the seventh anniversary of the date consent was obtained under Section 173.006; or
(2) if the woman was younger than 18 years of age on the date consent was obtained under Section 173.006, the later of:
(A) the woman's 23rd birthday; or
(B) the seventh anniversary of the date consent was obtained.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 441 (S.B. 8), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2017.
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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.173.htm
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