Bill Text: TX SB187 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB187 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB187-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB187 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB187-Engrossed.html
By: Nelson | 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. |