| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 691, Health and Safety |
|
|
Code, is amended by adding Section 691.0225 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 691.0225. INFORMED CONSENT DOCUMENT. The board shall |
|
|
develop an informed consent document to inform a person making a |
|
|
gift of a decedent's body or anatomical specimen for purposes of |
|
|
education or research of the risks and benefits associated with |
|
|
donation. The board shall make the document available on the |
|
|
board's Internet website. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Section 691.031(a), Health and Safety Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(a) The board shall adopt rules to ensure that: |
|
|
(1) each body or anatomical specimen received or |
|
|
distributed by the board is properly transported; |
|
|
(2) a label with the statement "CONTENTS DERIVED FROM |
|
|
DONATED HUMAN TISSUE" is affixed to the container in which the body |
|
|
or anatomical specimen is transported; and |
|
|
(3) each person who has control or possession of a body |
|
|
or anatomical specimen: |
|
|
(A) satisfactorily completes the information |
|
|
required on a chain-of-custody form prescribed by the board; |
|
|
(B) maintains a copy of the form for the person's |
|
|
records; and |
|
|
(C) transfers the form to any other person to |
|
|
whom control or possession of the body or anatomical specimen is |
|
|
transferred. |
|
|
SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2012, the Anatomical |
|
|
Board of the State of Texas shall: |
|
|
(1) adopt the rules and form required under Section |
|
|
691.031(a), Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act; and |
|
|
(2) develop the informed consent document required |
|
|
under Section 691.0225, Health and Safety Code, as added by this |
|
|
Act. |
|
|
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |