Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.006
RECORDS OF PERSONS IN HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 191.006, RECORDS OF PERSONS IN HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/668996
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(a) This section applies to each public or private hospital, almshouse, or other institution to which persons are committed by process of law or voluntarily enter for treatment of disease or for confinement.
(b) When a person is admitted to the institution, the superintendent, manager, or other person in charge of the institution shall record, in the manner directed by the state registrar, the admitted person's personal and statistical data required by certificate forms under this title. If the person is admitted for the treatment of disease, the physician in charge shall specify for the record the nature of the disease and where, in the physician's opinion, the disease was contracted.
(c) The personal information required under Subsection (b) shall be obtained:
(1) from the person admitted to the institution, if practicable; or
(2) from the person's relatives or friends or from other persons acquainted with the facts, in as complete a manner as possible, if the information cannot be obtained from the person admitted to the institution.