Tex. Health and Safety Code § 33.002
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§ 33.002. DETECTION AND TREATMENT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
Official statutory text
(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.
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the program, including a rule specifying other heritable diseases covered by this chapter.
(c) The department shall establish and maintain a laboratory to:
(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;
(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
(3) serve other purposes considered necessary by the department to carry out the program.
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the program, including a rule specifying other heritable diseases covered by this chapter.
(c) The department shall establish and maintain a laboratory to:
(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;
(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
(3) serve other purposes considered necessary by the department to carry out the program.
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