Tex. Ins. Code § 545.053 · Subchapter B. ISSUER POWERS AND DUTIES
EXPLANATION AND AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An issuer that requests or requires an applicant to take an HIV-related test in connection with an application must:
(1) provide an explanation to the applicant, or another person legally authorized to consent to the test, of how the test will be used; and
(2) obtain a written authorization from the person to whom the explanation is provided.
(b) The authorization must:
(1) be on a form adopted by the commissioner; and
(2) be separate from any other document presented to the applicant or other person legally authorized to consent to the test.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.545.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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