{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-174.004","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 174.004","heading":"PURPOSE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY.","body":"(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.\n(b) The policy of this state is to:\n(1) oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and\n(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.\nAdded by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 130), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 174. SECURITY OF GENETIC INFORMATION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.174.htm#174.004","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"1f022273a457dd21b8ab101e6a96e6c95627427eebb3f0f435cb93252cd12225","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-174.003","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-174.005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}