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Amend CSSB 258 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill:
SECTION ____.  Section 171.002, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows:
(2-a)  "Embryonic and fetal tissue remains" has the meaning assigned by Section 697.002.
(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Section 171.012(a)(4)(B)(iv), Health and Safety Code (page 2, line 22), strike "completed" and substitute "signed".
(3)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Section 171.012(a)(7)(A), Health and Safety Code (page 3, line 36), strike "completed" and substitute "signed".
(4)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, in amended Section 171.0121(a), Health and Safety Code (page 3, line 46), strike "completed" and substitute "signed".
(5)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, strike added Sections 171.0161(a) and (b), Health and Safety Code (page 4, lines 32-36), and substitute the following:
(a)  The department shall develop and maintain a form that notifies a pregnant woman of the disposition methods for embryonic and fetal tissue remains.
(6)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, strike added Sections 171.0161(c)(1) and (2), Health and Safety Code (page 4, lines 38-42), and substitute the following:
(1)  a statement describing the disposition methods for embryonic and fetal tissue remains authorized by Chapter 697; and
(7)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(c)(3), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 45), strike "Section 697.005" and substitute "Chapter 697".
(8)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(c)(3), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 46), strike "abortion provider's" and substitute "health care facility's".
(9)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(c)(3), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 47), strike "for transport".
(10)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(f)(1)(A), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 57), strike "common burial or low-cost private burial" and substitute "or low-cost disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains that complies with Chapter 697".
(11)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(f)(1)(B), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 61), strike "burial or cremation" and substitute "the disposition".
(12)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161(g), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 67), between "section" and the underlined period, insert the following:
, including rules for the collection, storage, handling, and movement of embryonic and fetal tissue remains
(13)  In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 171.0161, Health and Safety Code (page 4, lines 30-67), reletter and renumber the subsections and subdivisions of that section and any cross-references accordingly.
(14)  In SECTION 7 of the bill, in added Section 697.003(1), Health and Safety Code (page 5, line 28), strike "the care of".
(15)  In SECTION 7 of the bill, in added Section 697.005(c), Health and Safety Code (page 5, line 56), strike "burial or cremation" and substitute "the disposition".
(16)  In SECTION 7 of the bill, in added Section 697.005(d), Health and Safety Code (page 5, line 60), strike "transportation" and substitute "movement".
(17)  In SECTION 8(1) of the bill, in the transition language (page 6, line 30), between "Act" and the semicolon, insert the following:
, including rules for the collection, storage, handling, and movement of embryonic and fetal tissue remains
(18)  In SECTION 9(a) of the bill, in the transition language (page 6, line 34), strike "an abortion performed" and substitute "a procedure that results in embryonic and fetal tissue remains being expelled or removed from a pregnant woman".
(19)  In SECTION 9(a) of the bill, in the transition language (page 6, line 35), strike "An abortion performed" and substitute "A procedure that results in embryonic and fetal tissue remains being expelled or removed from a pregnant woman".
(20)  Renumber SECTIONS of the bill appropriately.