Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 241.0263. Recommendations Relating to Missing Infants

(1) reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction; and

(2) aid in the identification of missing infants.

(1) controlling access to newborn nurseries;

(2) expanding observation of newborn nurseries through the use of video cameras; and

(3) requiring identification for hospital staff and visitors as a condition of entrance to newborn nurseries.

(1) footprinting, photographing, or writing descriptions of infant patients at birth; and

(2) obtaining umbilical cord blood samples for infant patients born at the hospital and storing the samples for genetic testing purposes.