{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-33.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 33.002","heading":"DETECTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.","body":"(a) The department shall carry out a program to combat morbidity, including intellectual disability, and mortality in persons who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, other heritable diseases, or hypothyroidism.\n(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the program, including a rule specifying other heritable diseases covered by this chapter.\n(c) The department shall establish and maintain a laboratory to:\n(1) conduct experiments, projects, and other activities necessary to develop screening or diagnostic tests for the early detection of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, other heritable diseases, and hypothyroidism;\n(2) develop ways and means or discover methods to be used to prevent or treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, other heritable diseases, and hypothyroidism; and\n(3) serve other purposes considered necessary by the department to carry out the program.\nAmended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0099, eff. April 2, 2015.\nActs 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 30 (H.B. 446), Sec. 6.02, eff. September 1, 2023.\nActs 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 50 (S.B. 1044), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE B. HEALTH PROGRAMS","CHAPTER 33. DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, PHENYLKETONURIA, OTHER HERITABLE DISEASES, HYPOTHYROIDISM, AND CERTAIN OTHER DISORDERS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.33.htm#33.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"1d2691e4bea15b09300d309495c0887e682e1398ecb2349c63c4ef6c49d99b6e","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-33.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-33.0021"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}