Tex. Health & Safety Code § 595.003 · Chapter 595. RECORDS
CONSENT TO DISCLOSURE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The content of a confidential record may be disclosed in accordance with the prior written consent of:
(1) the person about whom the record is maintained;
(2) the person's parent if the person is a minor;
(3) the guardian if the person has been adjudicated incompetent to manage the person's personal affairs; or
(4) if the person is dead:
(A) the executor or administrator of the deceased's estate; or
(B) if an executor or administrator has not been appointed, the deceased's spouse or, if the deceased was not married, an adult related to the deceased within the first degree of consanguinity.
(b) Disclosure is permitted only to the extent, under the circumstances, and for the purposes allowed under department rules.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.595.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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