Tex. Health & Safety Code § 174.004 · Chapter 174. SECURITY OF GENETIC INFORMATION
PURPOSE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization subject to this chapter does not provide a foreign adversary access to the genetic information of residents of this state.
(b) The policy of this state is to:
(1) oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and
(2) support sanctions the United States Department of Commerce or the United States Department of Defense imposes on a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization engaged in the collection and analysis of genomic information for use by a foreign adversary.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 130), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.174.htm
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- 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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