Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.101 · Subchapter F. TESTS FOR ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME AND RELATED DISORDERS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Public Health Service.
(2) "HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus.
(3) "Bona fide occupational qualification" means a qualification:
(A) that is reasonably related to the satisfactory performance of the duties of a job; and
(B) for which there is a reasonable cause for believing that a person of the excluded group would be unable to perform satisfactorily the duties of the job with safety.
(4) "Blood bank" means a blood bank, blood center, regional collection center, tissue bank, transfusion service, or other similar facility licensed by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the United States Food and Drug Administration, accredited for membership in the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks), or qualified for membership in the American Association of Tissue Banks.
(5) "Test result" means any statement that indicates that an identifiable individual has or has not been tested for AIDS or HIV infection, antibodies to HIV, or infection with any other probable causative agent of AIDS, including a statement or assertion that the individual is positive, negative, at risk, or has or does not have a certain level of antigen or antibody.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0238, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm
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Cited by 12 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.101. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 501.054AIDS AND HIV EDUCATION; TESTING.Printed as Section 81.101, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 507.023AIDS AND HIV EDUCATION; TESTING.Printed as Section 81.101, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 543A.0001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 81.101, Health and Safety Code
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.050MANDATORY TESTING OF PERSONS SUSPECTED OF EXPOSING CERTAIN OTHER PERSONS TO REPORTABLE DISEASES, INCLUDING HIV INFECTION.Printed as Section 81.101
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.051PARTNER NOTIFICATION PROGRAMS; HIV INFECTION.Printed as Section 81.101
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.090DIAGNOSTIC TESTING DURING PREGNANCY AND AFTER BIRTH.Printed as Section 81.101
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