Bill Text: TX HB635 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the disposition of fetal remains.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB635 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB635-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 635 | ||
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| relating to the disposition of fetal remains. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 241.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 241.010. DISPOSITION OF FETAL REMAINS. (a) A hospital | ||
| shall release the remains of an unintended, intrauterine fetal | ||
| death on the request of a parent of the unborn child, in a manner | ||
| appropriate under law and the hospital's policy for disposition of | ||
| a human body. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remains of an | ||
| unintended, intrauterine fetal death weigh less than 350 grams, a | ||
| hospital shall release the remains on the request of a parent of the | ||
| unborn child, in a manner that is appropriate under law and | ||
| consistent with hospital policy. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 635 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 635 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
