Bill Text: TX HB635 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the disposition of fetal remains.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB635 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB635-Comm_Sub.html

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84R4663 AJZ-D
By: Price, Leach, Flynn, Burkett, Zerwas, H.B. No. 635
et al.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disposition of fetal remains.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 241.010 to read as follows:
Sec. 241.010. DISPOSITION OF FETAL REMAINS. A hospital
shall release the remains of an unintended, intrauterine fetal
death on the request of a parent of the unborn child, in a manner
appropriate under law and the hospital's practice for disposition
of a human body.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.