Tex. Health & Safety Code § 47.009 · Chapter 47. HEARING LOSS IN NEWBORNS
IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A birthing facility, a clinical laboratory, an audiologist, a health care provider, a physician, a registered nurse, or any other officer or employee of a birthing facility, a laboratory, a physician, or an audiologist is not criminally or civilly liable for furnishing information in good faith to the department or its designee as required by this chapter. This section does not apply to information gathered and furnished after a parent of a newborn or infant declined screening offered through a program.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1347, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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.47.htm
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