Tex. Health & Safety Code § 92.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The following persons shall report cases or suspected cases of reportable injuries to the department:
(1) a physician who diagnoses or treats a reportable injury; and
(2) a medical examiner or justice of the peace.
(b) The department may contact a physician attending a person with a case or suspected case of a reportable injury.
(c) The department shall prescribe the form and method of reporting. The department may require the reports to contain any information, including the person's name, address, age, sex, race, occupation, employer, and attending physician, necessary to achieve the purposes of this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Renumbered from Health & Safety Code Sec. 87.003 by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 17.01(18), eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Renumbered from Health and Safety Code Sec. 88.003 by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 31.01(53), eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 893, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1088, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0315, eff. April 2, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.92.htm
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