Tex. Health & Safety Code § 99.006 · Chapter 99. OPEN BURN PIT REGISTRY
OPEN BURN PIT INFORMATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department, with the assistance of the Texas Veterans Commission, shall develop and include on its Internet website information to inform service members, veterans, and their families about the:
(1) registration and use of the department's open burn pit registry and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry;
(2) most recent scientific developments on the health effects of exposure to open burn pit smoke and other airborne hazards and the status of any illness or condition that is presumed to be caused by exposure to open burn pit smoke or other airborne hazards as designated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs;
(3) availability of any treatment offered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for an illness or condition that may be caused by exposure to open burn pit smoke or other airborne hazards;
(4) process for applying to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for service-related disability compensation for an illness or condition that may be related to exposure to open burn pit smoke or other airborne hazards, including the methods for documenting the illness or condition; and
(5) manner of appealing to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs an existing service-related disability rating decision or requesting an increased service-related disability rating based on an illness or condition that may be related to exposure to open burn pit smoke or other airborne hazards.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 153 (H.B. 306), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.99.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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