Texas Health and Safety Code

§ 81.090 — DIAGNOSTIC TESTING DURING PREGNANCY AND AFTER BIRTH

HS § 81.090Title 2. HEALTH · Part D. PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND REPORTS OF DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES · Ch. 81. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS; PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES · Art. E. CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS; PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES

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(a)A physician or other person permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman during gestation or at delivery of an infant shall:

(1)take or cause to be taken a sample of the woman's blood or other appropriate specimen at the first examination and visit;

(2)submit the sample to an appropriately certified laboratory for diagnostic testing approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for:

(A)syphilis;

(B)HIV infection; and

(C)hepatitis B infection; and

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Legislative history

Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1124 (H.B. 1795), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2009. Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1124 (H.B. 1795), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2009. Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1124 (H.B. 1795), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2009. Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 206 (S.B. 1128), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 973 (S.B. 748), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2019.