Tex. Health & Safety Code § 37.004 · Chapter 37. ABNORMAL SPINAL CURVATURE IN CHILDREN
QUALIFICATIONS OF PERSONS PROVIDING SCREENING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may train persons who administer the spinal screening procedure and may approve training programs.
(b) A person who provides screening services authorized by this chapter must be:
(1) appropriately licensed or certified as a health practitioner; or
(2) certified as having completed an approved training program in screening for abnormal spinal curvature.
(c) A person who provides a professional examination authorized by this chapter for abnormal spinal curvature must be appropriately licensed or certified as a health practitioner.
(d) It is the intent of the legislature that the department provide certification training for nonhealth practitioners through Texas Education Agency regional education service centers.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 6.37, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.37.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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