Tex. Health & Safety Code § 224.003 · Chapter 224. POLICY ON VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES
DISASTER EXEMPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "public health disaster" has the meaning assigned by Section 81.003.
(b) During a public health disaster, a health care facility may prohibit a covered individual who is exempt from the vaccines required in the policy developed by the facility under Section 224.002 from having contact with facility patients.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 8.02, eff. September 28, 2011.
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