1. (a) The department may obtain the data constituting an immunization record for a child from a public health district, a local health department, the child's parent, a physician to the child, a payor, or any health care provider licensed or otherwise authorized to administer vaccines.
2. (b) Effective January 1, 2005, the department shall verify consent before including information received from a person other than the child's parent in the immunization registry. Effective January 1, 2005, the department may not retain individually identifiable information about a person for whom consent cannot be verified.
3. (c) The department may release the data constituting an immunization record for a child to any entity that is described by subsection (a) of this section to a school or child care facility in which the child is enrolled, or to a state agency having legal custody of the child.
4. (d) A person, including a provider, a payor, or an employee of the department, that submits in good faith an immunization history or data to or obtains in good faith an immunization history or data from the department in compliance with this section is not liable for any civil damages.
5. (e) The department may release nonidentifying summary statistics related to the registry that do not individually identify a child.

Source Note:The provisions of this §100.5 adopted to be effective May 6, 2004, 29 TexReg 4155.