{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-224.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 224.001","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Covered individual\" means:\n(A) an employee of the health care facility;\n(B) an individual providing direct patient care under a contract with a health care facility; or\n(C) an individual to whom a health care facility has granted privileges to provide direct patient care.\n(2) \"Health care facility\" means:\n(A) a facility licensed under Subtitle B, including a hospital as defined by Section 241.003; or\n(B) a hospital maintained or operated by this state.\n(3) \"Regulatory authority\" means a state agency that regulates a health care facility under this code.\n(4) \"Vaccine preventable diseases\" means the diseases included in the most current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nAdded by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 8.02, eff. September 28, 2011.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES","SUBTITLE A. FINANCING, CONSTRUCTING, REGULATING, AND INSPECTING HEALTH FACILITIES","CHAPTER 224. POLICY ON VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.224.htm#224.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"7e05c5aa2122560ab90f66bfaa857a6da6fc9233eddcc79f1625e3b7d1878cda","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-223.038","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-224.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}