Bill Text: TX SB187 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB187 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB187-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 187 | ||
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| relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 691, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 691.0225 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 or research | ||
| of the risks and benefits associated with donation. The board shall | ||
| make the document available on the board's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 691.031, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The board shall adopt rules to ensure that: | ||
| (1) each body or anatomical specimen received or | ||
| distributed by the board is properly transported; | ||
| (2) a label with the statement "CONTENTS DERIVED FROM | ||
| DONATED HUMAN TISSUE" is affixed to the container in which the body | ||
| or anatomical specimen is transported; and | ||
| (3) each person who has control or possession of a body | ||
| or anatomical specimen: | ||
| (A) satisfactorily completes the information | ||
| required on a chain-of-custody form prescribed by the board; | ||
| (B) maintains a copy of the form for the person's | ||
| records; and | ||
| (C) transfers the form to any other person to | ||
| whom control or possession of the body or anatomical specimen is | ||
| transferred. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2012, the Anatomical | ||
| Board of the State of Texas shall: | ||
| (1) adopt the rules and form required under Subsection | ||
| (a), Section 691.031, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this | ||
| Act; and | ||
| (2) develop the informational document required under | ||
| Section 691.0225, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 187 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 187 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
