(a) Each facility having a capacity of 100 or more beds, or housing inmates transferred from a facility with a capacity of at least 100 beds or housing inmates from another state, shall develop and implement a plan for tuberculosis screening tests of employees, volunteers, and inmates. Inmates confined in the jail for more than 7 days shall be tested on or before the 7th day after the day of confinement. Inmates may be exempt from the screening test when the test conflicts with the tenets of an organized religion to which the individual belongs or when the test is contraindicated based on an examination by a physician. An inmate is not required to be retested at each rebooking if the inmate is booked into the facility more than once during a 12-month period, unless the inmate shows symptoms of or is known to have been exposed to tuberculosis.
(b) The tuberculosis screening plan shall be developed and implemented in accordance with 25 TAC §§97.171 - 97.180 (relating to Communicable Diseases) and the Texas Health and Safety Code, §§89.001 - 89.102 and shall be approved by the appropriate branch of the Department of State Health Services prior to use. The plan shall be made available to the Commission upon request. A copy of an inmate's medical records or documentation of screenings or treatment received during confinement shall accompany an inmate transferred from one correctional facility to another or to TDCJ-ID and be available for medical review upon arrival of the inmate.

Source Note: The provisions of this §273.7 adopted to be effective June 25, 2000, 25 TexReg 5917; amended to be effective May 3, 2009, 34 TexReg 2680; amended to be effective December 22, 2020, 45 TexReg 9231