Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.061 · Subchapter D. INVESTIGATION AND INSPECTION
INVESTIGATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall investigate the causes and effects of communicable disease and methods of prevention.
(b) The department may require special investigations of specified cases of disease to evaluate the status in this state of epidemic, endemic, or sporadic diseases. Each health authority shall provide information on request according to the department's written instructions.
(c) The department may investigate the existence of communicable disease in the state to determine the nature and extent of the disease and potential effects on the health of individuals and to formulate and evaluate the control measures used to protect the public health. A person shall provide records and other information to the department on request according to the department's written instructions.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1087 (H.B. 3576), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.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
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.061. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.062WITNESSES; DOCUMENTS.Printed as Section 81.061(c)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 87.042DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATORY POWERS.Printed as Sections 81.061, 81.063, 81.064, and 81.065
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.0211EPIDEMIOLOGIC OR TOXICOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS.Printed as Section 81.061(c)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.0212RIGHT OF ENTRY.Printed as Sections 81.061, 81.063, 81.064, and 81.065
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