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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 241.1031

PRESERVATION OF RECORD FROM FORENSIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION

Known as the Texas Hospital Licensing Law

The act spans §§ 241.001 to 241.406 (86 sections).

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 357 (H.B. 531), Sec. 1, eff

(a) A hospital may not destroy a medical record from the forensic medical examination of a sexual assault victim conducted under Subchapter G, Chapter 56A, Code of Criminal Procedure, until the 20th anniversary of the date the record was created.

(b) A hospital may maintain a medical record described by Subsection (a) in the same form in which the hospital maintains other medical records.

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