{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-89.012","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 89.012","heading":"FOLLOW-UP EVALUATIONS AND TREATMENT.","body":"(a) An employee or a volunteer with a positive screening test result must obtain a diagnostic evaluation from the person's own physician to determine if the person has tuberculosis.\n(b) If the employee or volunteer has tuberculosis, the governing body may not permit the person to begin or continue the person's employment duties or volunteer services unless the person is under treatment for the disease by a physician and the person provides to the governing body a certificate signed by the attending physician stating that the patient is noninfectious.\nAdded by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 786, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 348, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE D. PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND REPORTS OF DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES","CHAPTER 89. SCREENING AND TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN JAILS AND OTHER CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES","SUBCHAPTER B. SCREENING OF JAIL EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.89.htm#89.012","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"ccf3c1c079da9b47e796812976529f8193a1db746bee883151bf516bc8201aa3","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-89.011","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-89.013"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}