Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 47.009
Immunity from Liability

A birthing facility, a clinical laboratory, an audiologist, a health care provider, a physician, a registered nurse, or any other officer or employee of a birthing facility, a laboratory, a physician, or an audiologist is not criminally or civilly liable for furnishing information in good faith to the department or its designee as required by this chapter. This section does not apply to information gathered and furnished after a parent of a newborn or infant declined screening offered through a program.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1347, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Source: Section 47.009 — Immunity from Liability, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­47.­htm#47.­009 (accessed Apr. 29, 2024).

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