Bill Text: TX HB780 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
87R2962 SRA-D | ||
By: Oliverson | 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 commission | ||
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 a national | ||
bone marrow donor registry 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 commission shall develop written or printable | ||
informational materials on bone marrow donation and registration | ||
with a national bone marrow donor registry that appropriate health | ||
care facilities, blood banks, and driver's license offices may | ||
place in their facilities, banks, or offices to provide to | ||
residents of this state. | ||
(c) The commission shall post the informational materials | ||
on the commission's Internet website and may develop press, radio, | ||
and television materials to spread awareness of the bone marrow | ||
donor recruitment program. | ||
Sec. 53.002. REPORT. (a) Not later than December 1, 2022, | ||
the commission, in conjunction with the Department of Motor | ||
Vehicles, shall submit to the appropriate standing committees of | ||
the legislature a report regarding the bone marrow donor | ||
recruitment program established under Section 53.001 that includes | ||
an evaluation on the effectiveness of the recruitment program and | ||
the number of individuals from this state who have registered with a | ||
national bone marrow donor registry as a result of the program. | ||
(b) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 521.0063, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.0063. INFORMATION ON BONE MARROW DONATION. (a) | ||
The department shall: | ||
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an original or renewal driver's license written or printable | ||
informational materials regarding bone marrow donation and | ||
registration with a national bone marrow donor registry; and | ||
(2) place signage in each [ |
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availability of the written or printable [ |
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with a national bone marrow donor registry [ |
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(b) The department shall use written or printable | ||
informational materials developed by the Health and Human Services | ||
Commission under Section 53.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Health and Human Services Commission shall develop | ||
the informational materials as required by Section 53.001, Health | ||
and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |