By McCall H.B. No. 3830
76R12351 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain post-mortem procedures.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 693, Health and Safety Code, is amended
1-5 by adding Subchapter D to read as follows:
1-6 SUBCHAPTER D. REMOVAL OF SPERM
1-7 Sec. 693.051. REMOVAL OF SPERM FOR REPRODUCTIVE PURPOSES. A
1-8 person may not remove sperm from a decedent for reproductive
1-9 purposes unless:
1-10 (1) the removal is performed at the request of the
1-11 decedent's spouse; and
1-12 (2) the decedent had, before death, given written
1-13 consent to the removal of sperm after death.
1-14 SECTION 2. The heading of Chapter 693, Health and Safety
1-15 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16 CHAPTER 693. REMOVAL OF BODY PARTS, BODY TISSUE, [AND] CORNEAL
1-17 TISSUE, AND OTHER MATERIAL
1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.