Tex. Health and Safety Code § 174.004
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 174.004, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 174.004. PURPOSE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY.
Official statutory text
(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.
(b) The policy of this state is to:
(1) oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and
(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.
(b) The policy of this state is to:
(1) oppose the collection and analysis of genomic information by a foreign adversary or for use by a foreign adversary; and
(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.
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