Tex. Health & Safety Code § 254.162 · Subchapter D. REGULATION OF FACILITIES
DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION PROHIBITED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A freestanding emergency medical care facility may not discipline, retaliate against, or otherwise discriminate against a facility employee who in good faith reports a suspected act of human trafficking to the facility, a law enforcement agency, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, the attorney general, or any other appropriate authority.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 375 (H.B. 742), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.254.htm
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- 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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