Tex. Health & Safety Code § 442.057 · Subchapter B. DONATION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF UNUSED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A donor or participating provider who acts in good faith in donating, accepting, storing, labeling, distributing, or dispensing prescription drugs under this chapter:
(1) is not criminally liable and is not subject to professional disciplinary action for those activities; and
(2) is not civilly liable for damages for bodily injury, death, or property damage that arises from those activities unless the injury, death, or damage arises from the donor or participating provider's recklessness or intentional conduct.
(b) A manufacturer of a prescription drug that donates a drug under this chapter is not, in the absence of bad faith, criminally or civilly liable for bodily injury, death, or property damage arising from the donation, acceptance, or dispensing of the drug, including the manufacturer's failure to communicate to a donor or other person:
(1) product or consumer information about the donated prescription drug; or
(2) the expiration date of the donated prescription drug.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 485 (H.B. 2561), Sec. 7(a), eff. September 1, 2017.
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.442.htm
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