Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 87 - Birth Defects

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 87.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Birth defect" means a physical or mental functional deficit or impairment in a human embryo, fetus, or newborn resulting from one...
• Texas Section 87.002 - Confidentiality
  (a) Except as specifically authorized by this chapter, reports, records, and information furnished to a department employee or to an authorized agent of the department...
• Texas Section 87.003 - Contracts
  The department may enter into contracts or agreements with persons as necessary to implement this chapter. The contracts or agreements may provide for payment by...
• Texas Section 87.004 - Limitation Of Liability
  A health professional, a health facility, or an administrator, officer, or employee of a health facility subject to this chapter is not civilly or criminally...

SUBCHAPTER B BIRTH DEFECTS MONITORING PROGRAM

• Texas Section 87.005 - Cooperation Of Governmental Entities
  Another state board, commission, agency, or governmental entity capable of assisting the department in carrying out the intent of this chapter shall cooperate with the...
• Texas Section 87.021 - Surveillance Program; Registry Established
  (a) The executive commissioner shall establish in the department a program to: (1) identify and investigate certain birth defects in children; and (2) maintain a...
• Texas Section 87.022 - Data Collection
  (a) To ensure an accurate source of data necessary to investigate the incidence, prevalence, and trends of birth defects, the executive commissioner may require a...

SUBCHAPTER C INVESTIGATIONS AND INSPECTIONS

• Texas Section 87.023 - Referral For Services
  A child who meets the medical criteria prescribed by department rule, and the child's family, shall be referred to the department's case management program for...
• Texas Section 87.041 - Investigations
  (a) The department may conduct investigations, including epidemiological or toxicological investigations, of cases of specified birth defects. (b) The department may conduct these investigations to...

SUBCHAPTER D CENTRAL REGISTRY

• Texas Section 87.042 - Departmental Investigatory Powers
  To conduct an investigation under this chapter, the commissioner or the commissioner's designee has the same authority to enter, inspect, investigate, and take samples and...
• Texas Section 87.061 - Registry; Confidentiality
  (a) Information collected and analyzed by the department or an authorized agent under this chapter may be placed in a central registry to facilitate research...
• Texas Section 87.062 - Access To Information
  (a) Access to the central registry information is limited to authorized department employees and other persons with a valid scientific interest who are engaged in...
• Texas Section 87.063 - Research; Review And Approval
  (a) The commissioner and the department's committee for the protection of human subjects shall review each research proposal that requests the use of information in...
• Texas Section 87.064 - Report Of Central Registry Activities And Findings
  (a) The department shall publish an annual report of activities using data contained in the central registry. The report shall include: (1) a description of...
• Texas Section 87.065 - Coordination With Mexico
  In developing the central registry and conducting research in areas of this state that border Mexico, the department shall make every effort to coordinate its...

Last modified: September 28, 2016