Bill Text: TX HB785 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of embryo donation information.
Spectrum: 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 | ||
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Governor |