(a) A hospital may not destroy a medical record from the forensic medical examination of a sexual assault victim conducted under Subchapter G, Chapter 56A, Code of Criminal Procedure, until the 20th anniversary of the date the record was created.
(b) A hospital may maintain a medical record described by Subsection (a) in the same form in which the hospital maintains other medical records.

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