Tex. Health & Safety Code § 88.004 · Chapter 88. REPORTS OF CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING
PERSONS REQUIRED TO REPORT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person required to report childhood blood lead levels shall report to the department in the manner specified by department rule. Except as provided by this section, a person required by this section to report must make the report immediately after the person gains knowledge of a child with a reportable blood lead level.
(b) A physician shall report a case or suspected case of childhood lead poisoning or of a child with a reportable blood lead level after the physician's first examination of a child for whom reporting is required by this chapter or department rule.
(c) A person in charge of an independent clinical laboratory, a hospital or clinic laboratory, or other facility in which a laboratory examination of a specimen derived from the human body yields evidence of a child with a reportable blood lead level shall report the findings to the department as required by department rule.
(d) If a report is not made as required by Subsection (b) or (c), the following persons shall report a child's reportable blood lead level and all information known concerning the child:
(1) the administrator of a hospital licensed under Chapter 241;
(2) a registered nurse;
(3) an administrator or director of a public or private child care facility;
(4) an administrator of a home and community support services agency;
(5) an administrator or health official of a public or private institution of higher education;
(6) a superintendent, manager, or health official of a public or private camp, home, or institution;
(7) a parent, managing conservator, or guardian; and
(8) a health professional.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 52, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0304, eff. April 2, 2015.
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