S.B. No. 995




AN ACT

relating to donees of anatomical gifts.                                       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 692.005, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 692.005.  PERSONS WHO MAY BECOME DONEES.  (a)  The 
following persons may be donees of gifts of bodies or parts of 
bodies:
		(1)  a qualified organ procurement organization, for 
distribution to another person who may be a donee under this 
section, to be used for transplantation;
		(2)  a hospital or physician, to be used only for 
therapy or transplantation;
		(3)  a bank or storage facility, to be used only for 
therapy or transplantation;
		(4)  a person specified by a physician, to be used only 
for therapy or transplantation needed by the person;
		(5)  an eye bank the medical activities of which are 
directed by a physician;
		(6)  a forensic science program at:                                    
			(A)  a general academic teaching institution, as 
defined by Section 61.003(3), Education Code; or
			(B)  a private or independent institution of 
higher education, as defined by Section 61.003(15), Education Code; 
or
		(7) [(6)]  the Anatomical Board of the State of Texas.
	(b)  Except for donations to a forensic science program under 
Subsection (a)(6), the [The] Anatomical Board of the State of Texas 
shall be the donee of gifts of bodies or parts of bodies made for 
education or research, which are subject to distribution by that 
board under Chapter 691.
	(c)  A forensic science program that receives a donation 
under Subsection (a)(6) must submit a report to the Anatomical 
Board of the State of Texas on a quarterly basis that lists:
		(1)  the number of bodies or parts of bodies the 
forensic science program received; and
		(2)  the method in which the forensic science program 
used the bodies or parts of bodies for education or research.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 995 passed the Senate on 
April 21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2005, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 995 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 25, 2005, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor