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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Family Code § 160.511: OFFENSE: UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE OF SPECIMEN.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. FAMILY CODE
  2. TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
  3. SUBTITLE B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
  4. CHAPTER 160. UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT
  5. SUBCHAPTER F. GENETIC TESTING

(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally releases an identifiable specimen of another person for any purpose not relevant to the parentage proceeding and without a court order or the written permission of the person who furnished the specimen.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, eff. June 14, 2001.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:10Z. Source file · JSON

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