Tex. Occ. Code § 58.051 · Subchapter B. USE AND RETENTION OF GENETIC INFORMATION
CERTAIN USES OF GENETIC INFORMATION PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A licensing authority may not deny an application for an occupational license, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew an occupational license, or take any other disciplinary action against a license holder based on the refusal of the license applicant or license holder to:
(1) submit to a genetic test;
(2) submit a family health history;
(3) disclose whether the applicant or holder has submitted to a genetic test; or
(4) disclose the results of any genetic test to which the applicant or holder has submitted.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 14.001(a), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.58.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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