By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 1500
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2007; March 20, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
  April 17, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 17, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to designating the Donor Education, Awareness, and
  Registry Program of Texas as the Glenda Dawson Donate Life-Texas
  Registry.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 49, Health and Safety Code, is amended by
  adding Section 49.0011 to read as follows:
         Sec. 49.0011.  GLENDA DAWSON DONATE LIFE-TEXAS REGISTRY;
  PROMOTION OF REGISTRY. (a)  Any program or program component that
  the department develops under this chapter shall be known as the
  Glenda Dawson Donate Life-Texas Registry.
         (b)  The department shall affiliate with any entity,
  including a national or state association concerned with organ
  donation, to promote the registry in accordance with this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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