Tex. Health and Safety Code § 250.009

This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 250.009, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.

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§ 250.009. CIVIL LIABILITY.

Official statutory text

(a) A facility, an officer or employee of a facility, a financial management services agency, or an individual employer is not civilly liable for failure to comply with this chapter if the facility, financial management services agency, or individual employer makes a good faith effort to comply.

(b) A regulatory agency is not civilly liable to a person for criminal history record information forwarded to a requesting facility in accordance with this chapter.

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