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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 173.008

RECORD RETENTION

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 441 (S.B. 8), Sec. 7, eff

Unless another law requires a longer period of record retention, an authorized facility may not dispose of any medical record relating to a woman who consents to the donation of human fetal tissue before:

(1) the seventh anniversary of the date consent was obtained under Section 173.006; or

(2) if the woman was younger than 18 years of age on the date consent was obtained under Section 173.006, the later of:

(A) the woman's 23rd birthday; or

(B) the seventh anniversary of the date consent was obtained.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.