Tex. Health & Safety Code § 183.008 · Chapter 183. ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
AMENDING CERTAIN BIOLOGICAL SEX INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A covered entity may amend on an electronic health record an individual's biological sex as recorded in the space described by Section 183.007(a)(1)(A) only if:
(1) the amendment is to correct a clerical error; or
(2) the individual is diagnosed with a sexual development disorder and the amendment changes the individual's listed biological sex to the opposite biological sex.
(b) If an individual's biological sex is amended under Subsection (a)(2), the covered entity shall include in the individual's electronic health record information on the individual's sexual development disorder in the space described by Section 183.007(a)(1)(B).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1002 (S.B. 1188), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
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