| TO: | Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB284 by Nelson (Relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend requirements and regulation of human body and anatomical specimen donation. It would require the Texas Anatomical Board to develop and publish on its website an informed consent document notifying living donors or persons making a gift of a body of the risks and benefits associated with donation. The bill would direct the Texas Anatomical Board to ensure that the chain of custody document is properly completed, maintained, and transferred to a person who controls or possesses the body or specimens. An organ procurement organization and/or a qualified tissue procurement organization must have on file with the Anatomical Board and the Funeral Service Commission a copy of the certification and/or accreditation, issued by the appropriate federal agency, or other agency approved by these two Boards. These two Boards are also given authority to adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
The Texas Anatomical Board does not receive appropriations from the legislature, therefore this bill would have no fiscal impact on the board.
Based on analysis provided by the Funeral Service Commission, it is assumed that costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be absorbed within existing resources.
Based on the analysis provided by the
| Source Agencies: | 513 Funeral Service Commission, 720 The University of Texas System Administration
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, MW, CH
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