Bill Text: TX HB785 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of embryo donation information.
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 27-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB785 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB785-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 785 | ||
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| relating to the provision of embryo donation information. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 159, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 159.011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 159.011. INFORMATION ABOUT EMBRYO DONATION. (a) In | ||
| this section: | ||
| (1) "Assisted reproduction" has the meaning assigned | ||
| by Section 160.102, Family Code. | ||
| (2) "Embryo donation" means the act of transferring to | ||
| another person a human embryo for implantation in any person who is | ||
| not a genetic parent of the human embryo or the spouse of a genetic | ||
| parent of the human embryo. | ||
| (3) "Human embryo" means a genetically complete living | ||
| organism of the species Homo sapiens, from the single-cell | ||
| fertilized egg to the blastocyst stage. | ||
| (b) A physician who performs on a patient an assisted | ||
| reproduction procedure that involves the creation of a human embryo | ||
| shall inform the patient of the option of embryo donation for unused | ||
| human embryos. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 162, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter H to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H. EMBRYO DONATION INFORMATION | ||
| Sec. 162.701. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Department" means the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services. | ||
| (2) "Embryo donation" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 159.011, Occupations Code. | ||
| Sec. 162.702. INFORMATION REGARDING EMBRYO DONATION. The | ||
| department shall post information regarding embryo donation on the | ||
| department's Internet website. The information must include | ||
| contact information for nonprofit organizations that facilitate | ||
| embryo donation. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 785 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 785 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
