Bill Text: TX HB2734 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to an anatomical gift on behalf of a resident in a state supported living center.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2734 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2734-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2734

AN ACT
relating to an anatomical gift on behalf of a resident in a state
supported living center.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 555, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 555.027 to read as follows:
Sec. 555.027. ANATOMICAL GIFT. (a) The executive
commissioner by rule shall prescribe a form that a resident's
guardian may sign on behalf of a resident if the resident's guardian
elects to make an anatomical gift on behalf of the resident in
accordance with Chapter 692A.
(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude a guardian from
executing a document in accordance with Chapter 692A that
supersedes the form executed under that subsection.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
prescribe the form as required by Section 555.027, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the House on May 2,
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the Senate on May
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor