Tex. Health & Safety Code § 241.1031 · Subchapter E. STAFF, RECORDS, AND PLAN REVIEWS
PRESERVATION OF RECORD FROM FORENSIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A hospital may not destroy a medical record from the forensic medical examination of a sexual assault victim conducted under Subchapter G, Chapter 56A, Code of Criminal Procedure, until the 20th anniversary of the date the record was created.
(b) A hospital may maintain a medical record described by Subsection (a) in the same form in which the hospital maintains other medical records.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 357 (H.B. 531), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607), Sec. 10.003, eff. September 1, 2021.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 206 (S.B. 1401), Sec. 18, eff. September 1, 2023.
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