Bill Text: TX SB1011 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of human remains in the training of search and rescue animals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-08 - Left pending in committee [SB1011 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1011-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor | S.B. No. 1011 |
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relating to the use of human remains in the training of search and | ||
rescue animals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 691.022(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board shall distribute bodies and anatomical | ||
specimens to persons and institutions authorized to receive them. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 691.0225, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 691.0225. INFORMATIONAL DOCUMENT. The board shall | ||
develop a document to inform a person making a gift of a decedent's | ||
body or anatomical specimen for purposes of education, including | ||
training of search and rescue animals, or research of the risks and | ||
benefits associated with donation. The board shall make the | ||
document available on the board's Internet website. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 691.023(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) An officer, employee, or representative of the state, of | ||
a political subdivision, or of an institution having charge or | ||
control of a body not claimed for burial or a body required to be | ||
buried at public expense shall: | ||
(1) notify the board or the board's representative of | ||
the body's existence when the body comes into the person's | ||
possession, charge, or control if notified in writing to do so by | ||
the board or the board's representative; | ||
(2) deliver the body in accordance with the direction | ||
of the board; and | ||
(3) allow the board, the board's representative, or a | ||
physician designated by the board who complies with this chapter to | ||
remove the body to be used for the advancement of medical science or | ||
for the training of search and rescue animals. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 691.025(d), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A relative of the deceased may claim the body within 60 | ||
days after the body has been delivered to an institution or other | ||
person or entity authorized to receive the body. The body shall be | ||
released without charge. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 691.026, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 691.026. BODY OF TRAVELER. If an unclaimed body is the | ||
body of a traveler who died suddenly, the board shall direct the | ||
person or institution receiving the body to retain the body for six | ||
months for purposes of identification. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 691.028(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) An adult living in this state who is of sound mind may | ||
donate the adult's [ |
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the board, a medical or dental school, or another donee authorized | ||
by the board, to be used for the advancement of medical science or | ||
for the training of search and rescue animals. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 691.030, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The board or the board's representative shall | ||
distribute bodies donated to it and may redistribute bodies donated | ||
to medical or dental schools or other donees authorized by the board | ||
to schools and colleges of chiropractic, osteopathy, medicine, or | ||
dentistry incorporated in this state, to physicians, to persons who | ||
train animals to assist in search and rescue activities conducted | ||
by a law enforcement agency, and to other persons as provided by | ||
this section. | ||
(a-1) In making a distribution or redistribution to a person | ||
who trains search and rescue animals, the board or the board's | ||
representative must ensure that the person will use the body only to | ||
assist a law enforcement agency in the conduct of search and rescue | ||
activities. | ||
SECTION 8. Sections 691.033(a), (c), and (d), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To further medical science or provide specific | ||
training, a school, college, or person designated by the board may | ||
use, dissect, operate on, examine, and experiment on a body or | ||
anatomical specimen distributed under this chapter. | ||
(c) A law relating to the prevention of mutilation of a body | ||
does not apply to the use of a body as authorized under this section | ||
or a dissection, operation, examination, or experiment performed | ||
under this section. | ||
(d) To aid prosecutions under Section 42.08, Penal Code, the | ||
board shall adopt rules that clearly state the activities that are | ||
authorized by the board in relation to the use or dissection of a | ||
body. | ||
SECTION 9. Sections 691.034(a), (c), and (d), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board shall inspect and may approve institutions and | ||
persons for the receipt and use of bodies and anatomical specimens | ||
under this chapter. | ||
(c) The board may suspend or revoke a person's or | ||
institution's authorization to receive and use or dissect bodies or | ||
anatomical specimens if the board determines that the person or | ||
institution has improperly used a body or anatomical specimen. | ||
(d) A person or institution is entitled to a hearing before | ||
the board or a hearing examiner appointed by the board before the | ||
board may revoke the person's or institution's authorization to | ||
receive and use or dissect bodies or anatomical specimens. The | ||
board shall make all final decisions to suspend or revoke an | ||
authorization. | ||
SECTION 10. Section 692A.002, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivision (11-a) to read as follows: | ||
(11-a) "Education" with respect to the purposes | ||
authorized by law for making an anatomical gift includes training | ||
of search and rescue animals. | ||
SECTION 11. Sections 692A.011(a) and (b), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons | ||
named in the document of gift: | ||
(1) an organ procurement organization to be used for | ||
transplantation, therapy, research, or education; | ||
(2) a hospital to be used for research; | ||
(3) subject to Subsection (d), an individual | ||
designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the | ||
individual is the recipient of the part; | ||
(4) an eye bank or tissue bank, except that use of a | ||
gift of a whole body must be coordinated through the Anatomical | ||
Board of the State of Texas; | ||
(5) a forensic science program at: | ||
(A) a general academic teaching institution as | ||
defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; or | ||
(B) a private or independent institution of | ||
higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; [ |
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(6) a person who trains animals to assist in search and | ||
rescue activities conducted by a law enforcement agency; or | ||
(7) the Anatomical Board of the State of Texas. | ||
(b) Except for donations described by Subsections (a)(1) | ||
through (6) [ |
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be the donee of gifts of bodies or parts of bodies made for the | ||
purpose of education or research that are subject to distribution | ||
by the board under Chapter 691. | ||
SECTION 12. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |