1-1     By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 673
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     March 24, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 24, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the establishment and funding of a program to educate
 1-9     residents about anatomical gifts.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Chapter 46 to read as follows:
1-13              CHAPTER 46.  ANATOMICAL GIFT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
1-14           Sec. 46.001.  DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM.
1-15     (a)  The department shall develop a program to educate residents
1-16     about anatomical gifts.  The program shall include information
1-17     about:
1-18                 (1)  the laws governing anatomical gifts, including
1-19     Subchapter Q, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, and Chapter 692;
1-20                 (2)  the procedures for becoming an organ donor or
1-21     donee; and
1-22                 (3)  the benefits of organ donation.
1-23           (b)  In developing the program, the department shall solicit
1-24     broad-based input reflecting recommendations of all interested
1-25     groups, including representatives of patients, providers, ethnic
1-26     groups, and geographic regions.
1-27           (c)  The department shall implement the program only to the
1-28     extent that funds are available from Section 521.421(g) or
1-29     521.422(c), Transportation Code.
1-30           SECTION 2.  Section 521.421, Transportation Code, is amended
1-31     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-32           (g)  The department shall collect an additional fee of $1 for
1-33     the issuance or renewal of a license to fund the anatomical gift
1-34     educational program established under Chapter 46, Health and Safety
1-35     Code, if the person applying for or renewing a license opts to pay
1-36     the additional fee.  The department shall remit fees collected
1-37     under this subsection to the comptroller, who shall maintain the
1-38     identity of the source of the fees.
1-39           SECTION 3.  Section 521.422, Transportation Code, is amended
1-40     by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-41           (c)  The department shall collect an additional fee of $1 for
1-42     the issuance or renewal of a personal identification card to fund
1-43     the anatomical gift educational program established under Chapter
1-44     46, Health and Safety Code, if the person applying for or renewing
1-45     a personal identification card opts to pay the additional fee.  The
1-46     department shall remit fees collected under this subsection to the
1-47     comptroller, who shall maintain the identity of the source of the
1-48     fees.
1-49           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-50           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-51     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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