Tex. Health & Safety Code § 323.0052 · Subchapter A. EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
INFORMATION FORM FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS WHO HAVE NOT REPORTED ASSAULT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall develop a standard information form that, as described by Subsection (b), is to be provided to sexual assault survivors who have not given signed, written consent to a health care facility to release the evidence as provided by Section 420.0735, Government Code. The form must include the following information:
(1) the Department of Public Safety's policy regarding storage of evidence of a sexual assault or other sex offense that is collected under Subchapter G, Chapter 56A, Code of Criminal Procedure, including:
(A) a statement that the evidence will be stored until the fifth anniversary of the date on which the evidence was collected before the evidence becomes eligible for destruction; and
(B) the department's procedures regarding the notification of the survivor through the statewide electronic tracking system before a planned destruction of the evidence;
(2) a statement that the survivor may request the release of the evidence to a law enforcement agency and report a sexual assault or other sex offense to the agency at any time;
(3) the name, phone number, and e-mail address of the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the offense;
(4) the name and phone number of a local sexual assault crisis center; and
(5) the names and contact information of legal aid services providers statewide.
(b) A health care facility that provides care to a sexual assault survivor who has not given consent as described by Subsection (a) shall provide the standard form developed under Subsection (a) to the survivor before the survivor is released from the facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 408 (H.B. 8), Sec. 11, eff. September 1, 2019.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 822 (H.B. 2706), Sec. 16, eff. September 1, 2021.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607), Sec. 10.006, eff. September 1, 2021.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 206 (S.B. 1401), Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2023.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 365 (H.B. 47), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2025.
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