| (a) The Commission has exempted the following categories
of forensic analysis from the accreditation requirement by administrative
rule:
(1) sexual assault examination of a person;
(2) forensic anthropology, entomology, or botany;
(3) environmental testing;
(4) facial or traffic accident reconstruction;
(5) serial number restoration;
(6) polygraph examination;
(7) voice stress, voiceprint, or similar voice analysis;
(8) statement analysis;
(9) forensic odontology for purposes of human identification
or age assessment, not to include bite mark comparison related to
patterned injuries;
(10) testing and/or screening conducted for sexually
transmitted diseases;
(11) fire scene investigation, including but not limited
to cause and origin determinations;
(12) forensic photography;
(13) non-criminal paternity testing;
(14) non-criminal testing of human or nonhuman blood,
urine, or tissue, including but not limited to workplace/employment
drug testing;
(15) the location, identification, collection or preservation
of physical evidence at a crime scene;
(16) crime scene reconstruction;
(17) confirmatory testing of a human specimen in a
laboratory certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/CMS) under the
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) for the
purposes of referring, offering, or making available treatment or
monitoring, conducted by or under contract with a community supervision
and corrections department, the parole division of the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice, or the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and the
results of such testing are subsequently entered into evidence in
an action to revise or revoke the terms of an individual's community
supervision or parole;
(18) document examination, including document authentication,
physical comparison, and product determination;
(19) other evidence processing or handling that is
excluded under §651.2(2) of this title (relating to Definitions);
or
(20) determination of National Integrated Ballistic
Information Network (NIBIN) suitability limited to triaging or grouping
multiple items of evidence for NIBIN entry and assessing a set of
test fires for purposes of NIBIN entry, as well as corresponding NIBIN
entry. The suitability assessment may include test-firing, but only
if no physical modification is made to the firearm other than what
occurs during the act of test-firing the weapon, and subject to the
condition that the test fire is for NIBIN suitability only and will
not be used for comparison purposes or for determination of functionality.
(b) A request for exemption for any discipline not
listed in this section shall be submitted in writing to the Commission.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §651.7 adopted to be effective June 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 4438; transferred effective September 1, 2015, as published in the Texas Register July 31, 2015, 40 TexReg 4907; amended to be effective December 24, 2015, 40 TexReg 9305; amended to be effective May 17, 2017, 42 TexReg 2568; amended to be effective October 8, 2017, 42 TexReg 5489; amended to be effective May 8, 2018, 43 TexReg 2798; amended to be effective August 26, 2018, 43 TexReg 5390; amended to be effective December 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 7909; amended to be effective April 23,2019, 44 TexReg 2056; amended to be effective July 15, 2019, 44 TexReg 3549; amended to be effective August 26, 2020, 45 TexReg 5930; amended to be effective October 24, 2021, 46 TexReg 7076; amended to be effective February 12, 2023, 48 TexReg 524 |
