Tex. Health & Safety Code § 491.057 · Subchapter B. ACCESS TO INDIVIDUALIZED INVESTIGATIONAL TREATMENT
PROHIBITED STATE INTERFERENCE WITH ACCESS TO TREATMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An officer, employee, or agent of this state may not block or attempt to block an eligible patient's access to an individualized investigational treatment that complies with this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), counseling, advice, or a recommendation consistent with medical standards of care from a licensed health care provider is not a violation of this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 285 (S.B. 984), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.491.V3.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 ddf9284d415d6248abed7e03c4b46fcde979f637c6e4da810dc1f393e6e78c90
- Composed by
- 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
- the Legislature enacted more than one unit numbered 491.057; this is the one the Council prints in hs.491.v3.htm
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