Tex. Health & Safety Code § 36.011 · Chapter 36. SPECIAL SENSES AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
QUALIFICATIONS OF PERSONS PROVIDING SCREENING AND REMEDIAL SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department in accordance with department rules may require that persons who administer special senses and communication disorders screening complete an approved training program, and the department may train those persons and approve training programs.
(b) A person who provides speech and language screening services authorized by this chapter must be:
(1) appropriately licensed; or
(2) trained and monitored by a person who is appropriately licensed.
(c) A person who is not an appropriately licensed professional may not conduct hearing screening authorized by this chapter other than screening of hearing sensitivity. The person shall refer an individual who is unable to respond reliably to that screening to an appropriately licensed professional.
(d) A person who provides a professional examination or remedial services authorized by this chapter for speech, language, or hearing disorders must be appropriately licensed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0127, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.36.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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