Bill Text: TX HB2734 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2734 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to an anatomical gift on behalf of a resident in a state supported living center.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2734 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2734-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2734




	AN ACT
	relating to an anatomical gift on behalf of a resident in a state
	supported living center.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 555, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 555.027 to read as follows:
	Sec. 555.027. ANATOMICAL GIFT. (a) The executive
	commissioner by rule shall prescribe a form that a resident's
	guardian may sign on behalf of a resident if the resident's guardian
	elects to make an anatomical gift on behalf of the resident in
	accordance with Chapter 692A.
	(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude a guardian from
	executing a document in accordance with Chapter 692A that
	supersedes the form executed under that subsection.
	SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive
	commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
	prescribe the form as required by Section 555.027, Health and
	Safety Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the Senate on May
	21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor