Bill Text: TX SB1249 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a living organ donor education program.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1249 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1249-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1249 | ||
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| relating to the establishment of a living organ donor education | ||
| 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 54 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 54. LIVING ORGAN DONOR EDUCATION PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 54.001. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. The department | ||
| shall establish a living organ donor education program to educate | ||
| residents of this state about: | ||
| (1) the need for living organ donors, including the | ||
| particular need for donors from minority populations; | ||
| (2) the partnership between the Glenda Dawson Donate | ||
| Life Texas Registry for deceased organ donation, maintained by | ||
| Donate Life Texas, and other organ donor registries for living | ||
| organ donation; | ||
| (3) the requirements for registering as a potential | ||
| living organ donor; | ||
| (4) the medical screening and procedures necessary for | ||
| an individual to be a living organ donor; and | ||
| (5) the availability of information about living organ | ||
| donation in health care facilities, transplant centers, organ | ||
| procurement organizations, tissue banks, eye banks, and driver's | ||
| license offices. | ||
| Sec. 54.002. INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS. (a) The department, | ||
| in consultation with Donate Life Texas, shall develop written and | ||
| electronic informational materials, including links to Internet | ||
| websites and machine-readable codes, regarding: | ||
| (1) living organ donation; and | ||
| (2) the process of registering with a living donor | ||
| registry. | ||
| (b) Donate Life Texas may develop and provide the | ||
| informational materials described by Subsection (a) to the | ||
| department. | ||
| (c) The department and the Department of Public Safety shall | ||
| post the information described by Subsection (a) on each of the | ||
| agency's Internet websites. | ||
| (d) Appropriate health care facilities, transplant centers, | ||
| organ procurement organizations, tissue banks, eye banks, and | ||
| driver's license offices may access the informational materials | ||
| described by Subsection (a) on the Internet websites of the | ||
| department and the Department of Public Safety and print the | ||
| materials to place in their facilities 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 Chapter 54, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1249 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 6, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1249 passed the House on | ||
| May 6, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 9, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
