Bill Text: TX HB780 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a bone marrow donor recruitment program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB780 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB780-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 780 |
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relating to the establishment of a bone marrow donor recruitment | ||
program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 53 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 53. BONE MARROW DONOR RECRUITMENT PROGRAM | ||
Sec. 53.001. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. (a) The department | ||
shall establish a bone marrow donor recruitment program to educate | ||
residents of this state about: | ||
(1) the need for bone marrow donors, including the | ||
particular need for donors from minority populations; | ||
(2) the requirements for registering with the | ||
federally authorized bone marrow donor registry established and | ||
maintained as required by 42 U.S.C. Section 274k as a potential bone | ||
marrow donor, including procedures for determining an individual's | ||
tissue type; | ||
(3) the medical procedures an individual must undergo | ||
to donate bone marrow or other sources of blood stem cells; and | ||
(4) the availability of information about bone marrow | ||
donation in health care facilities, blood banks, and driver's | ||
license offices. | ||
(b) The department, in consultation with the federally | ||
authorized bone marrow donor registry established and maintained as | ||
required by 42 U.S.C. Section 274k and the registry's interested | ||
contracted network partners, shall develop written and electronic | ||
informational materials, including links to Internet websites and | ||
machine-readable codes, regarding: | ||
(1) bone marrow donation; and | ||
(2) the process of registering with the federally | ||
authorized bone marrow donor registry. | ||
(c) The federally authorized bone marrow donor registry, in | ||
collaboration with the registry's interested contracted network | ||
partners, may develop and provide the informational materials | ||
described by Subsection (b) to the department. | ||
(d) The department and the Department of Public Safety shall | ||
post the information described by Subsection (b) on each agency's | ||
respective Internet websites. | ||
(e) Appropriate health care facilities, blood banks, and | ||
driver's license offices may access the informational materials | ||
described by Subsection (b) on the Internet websites of the | ||
department and the Department of Public Safety and print the | ||
materials to place in their facilities, banks, or offices to | ||
provide to residents of this state. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Department of State Health Services shall | ||
establish the program and obtain the informational materials as | ||
required by Section 53.001, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 780 was passed by the House on April | ||
9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 780 was passed by the Senate on April | ||
29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |