Texas Health and Safety Code
§ 174.004 — PURPOSE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY
HS § 174.004Title 2. HEALTH · Part H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS · Ch. 174. SECURITY OF GENETIC INFORMATION
Statute text
View on source(a)The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization subject to this chapter does not provide a foreign adversary access to the genetic information of residents of this state.
(b)The policy of this state is to:
(1)oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and
(2)support sanctions the United States Department of Commerce or the United States Department of Defense imposes on a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization engaged in the collection and analysis of genomic information for use by a foreign adversary.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 130), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.