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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 491.001. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<Text of § 491.001 by as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 285 (S.B. 984), § 1, eff. September 1, 2025.  See, also, § 491.001 as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 333 (S.B. 2308), § 1, eff. June 11, 2025, and § 491.001 as added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 352 (S.B. 670), § 2, eff. June 20, 2025 . >

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(1) “Individualized investigational treatment” means a drug, biological product, or device unique to and produced exclusively for use by a patient, based on the patient's genetic profile.  The term includes individualized gene therapy antisense oligonucleotides and individualized neoantigen vaccines.

(2) “Life-threatening illness” means a disease or condition with:

(A) a significantly increased likelihood of death unless the course of the disease or condition is interrupted;  or

(B) potentially fatal outcomes and for which the goal of clinical trials is survival.

(3) “Severely debilitating illness” means a disease or condition that causes major irreversible morbidity.

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