Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 33 - Phenylketonuria, Other Heritable Diseases, Hypothyroidism, And Certain Other Disorders

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 33.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Birthing facility" means an inpatient or ambulatory health care facility that offers obstetrical or newborn care services. The term includes: (A)...
• Texas Section 33.002 - Detection And Treatment Program Established
  (a) The department shall carry out a program to combat morbidity, including mental retardation, and mortality in persons who have phenylketonuria, other heritable diseases, or...
• Texas Section 33.0021 - Sickle-cell Trait
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the department shall include sickle-cell trait in the detection and treatment program established under this chapter, in the screening...
• Texas Section 33.003 - Cooperation Of Health Care Providers And Governmental Entities
  (a) The department may invite all physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers in the state that provide maternity and newborn infant care to cooperate...

SUBCHAPTER B NEWBORN SCREENING

• Texas Section 33.004 - Newborn Screening Program; Fees
  Sec. 33.004. NEWBORN SCREENING PROGRAM; FEES. (b) In accordance with rules adopted by the executive commissioner, the department shall implement a newborn screening program. (c)...
• Texas Section 33.011 - Test Requirement
  (a) The physician attending a newborn child or the person attending the delivery of a newborn child that is not attended by a physician shall...
• Texas Section 33.0111 - Disclosure Statement And Consent
  (a) The department shall develop a disclosure statement that clearly discloses to the parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a newborn child subjected to screening...
• Texas Section 33.0112 - Destruction Of Genetic Material
  (a) The department shall destroy any genetic material obtained from a child under this chapter not later than the second anniversary of the date the...
• Texas Section 33.012 - Exemption
  (a) Screening tests may not be administered to a newborn child whose parents, managing conservator, or guardian objects on the ground that the tests conflict...
• Texas Section 33.013 - Limitation On Liability
  A physician, technician, or other person administering the screening tests required by this chapter is not liable or responsible because of the failure or refusal...
• Texas Section 33.014 - Diagnosis; Follow-up
  (a) If, because of an analysis of a specimen submitted under Section 33.011, the department reasonably suspects that a newborn child may have phenylketonuria, another...
• Texas Section 33.015 - Reports; Record Keeping
  (a) Each physician, health authority, birthing facility, or other individual who has the information of a confirmed case of a disorder for which a screening...
• Texas Section 33.016 - Approval Of Laboratories
  (a) The department may develop a program to approve any laboratory that wishes to perform the tests required to be administered under this chapter. To...
• Texas Section 33.0165 - Mutual Aid Agreement For Newborn Screening Laboratory Services
  (a) In this section, "newborn screening laboratory services" means the performance of tests to analyze specimens collected as part of the newborn screenings performed under...
• Texas Section 33.017 - Newborn Screening Advisory Committee
  (a) The department shall establish the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. (b) The advisory committee consists of members appointed by the commissioner. The advisory committee must...

SUBCHAPTER C NEWBORN SCREENING PROGRAM SERVICES

• Texas Section 33.018 - Confidentiality
  (a) In this section: (1) "Affiliated with a health agency" means a person who is an employee or former employee of a health agency. (4)...
• Texas Section 33.031 - Coordination With Children With Special Health Care Needs Services
  (a) All newborn children and other individuals under 21 years of age who have been screened, have been found to be presumptively positive through the...
• Texas Section 33.032 - Program Services
  (a) Within the limits of funds available for this purpose and in cooperation with the individual's physician, the department may provide services directly or through...
• Texas Section 33.033 - Consent
  The department may not provide services without the consent of the individual or, if the individual is a minor, the minor's parent, managing conservator, or...
• Texas Section 33.034 - Denial, Modification, Suspension, And Revocation Of Approval To Provide Services
  (a) After notice and an opportunity for a fair hearing, the department may deny the approval or modify, suspend, or revoke the approval of a...
• Texas Section 33.035 - Individuals Eligible For Services
  (a) An individual is not eligible to receive the services authorized by this chapter at no cost or reduced cost to the extent that the...
• Texas Section 33.036 - Denial, Modification, Suspension, And Revocation Of Eligibility To Receive Services
  (a) After notice to the individual or, if the individual is a minor, the individual's parent, managing conservator, or guardian and an opportunity for a...
• Texas Section 33.037 - Reimbursement
  (a) The department may require an individual or, if the individual is a minor, the minor's parent, managing conservator, or guardian, or other person with...

SUBCHAPTER D SICKLE CELL DISEASE PROGRAM

• Texas Section 33.038 - Recovery Of Costs
  (a) The department is entitled to recover an expenditure for services provided under this chapter from: (1) a person who does not reimburse the department...
• Texas Section 33.051 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(16), eff. April 2, 2015. (2) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th...
• Texas Section 33.052 - Duties Of Department
  The department shall identify efforts related to the expansion and coordination of education, treatment, and continuity of care programs for individuals with sickle cell trait...
• Texas Section 33.054 - Grants
  (a) The program administrator shall investigate and identify grants and other funding mechanisms for entities that: (1) provide education regarding sickle cell trait and sickle...
• Texas Section 33.055 - Rules
  The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 315 (H.B. 2312), Sec. 1, eff. June...
• Texas Section 33.056 - Expiration
  This subchapter expires September 1, 2017. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 315 (H.B. 2312), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.

Last modified: September 28, 2016