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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 174.004

PURPOSE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY

Known as the Texas Genomic Act

The act spans §§ 174.001 to 174.011 (11 sections).

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 130), Sec. 1, eff

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization subject to this chapter does not provide a foreign adversary access to the genetic information of residents of this state.

(b) The policy of this state is to:

(1) oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and

(2) support sanctions the United States Department of Commerce or the United States Department of Defense imposes on a medical facility, research facility, company, or nonprofit organization engaged in the collection and analysis of genomic information for use by a foreign adversary.

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