(a) The director may adopt rules permitted by this subchapter that are necessary to administer or enforce this subchapter but shall adopt a rule expressly required by this subchapter.
(b) The director by rule may release or permit access to information to confirm or deny whether an individual has a preexisting record under this subchapter. After receiving a request regarding an individual whose DNA record has been expunged or removed under § 411.151, the director shall deny the preexisting record.

(c) The director by rule may exempt:
(1) a laboratory conducting non-human forensic DNA analysis from a rule adopted under this subchapter; and
(2) certain categories of individuals from a requirement to provide an additional sample after an acceptable DNA record exists for the individual.
(d) The director by rule may determine whether a DNA sample complies with a collection provision of this subchapter.