hospital administrators lose say over your organs after death

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90R1557 JG-D

By: Oliverson
H.B. No. 222

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the persons authorized to make an anatomical gift.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 692A.009(a), Health and Safety Code, is

amended to read as follows:

(a) Subject to Subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by

Section 692A.007 or Section 692A.008, an anatomical gift of a

decedent's body or part for the purpose of transplantation,

therapy, research, or education may be made by any member of the

following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the

order of priority listed:

(1) an agent of the decedent at the time of death who

could have made an anatomical gift under Section 692A.004(2)

immediately before the decedent's death;

(2) the spouse of the decedent;

(3) adult children of the decedent;

(4) parents of the decedent;

(5) adult siblings of the decedent;

(6) adult grandchildren of the decedent;

(7) grandparents of the decedent;

(8) an adult who exhibited special care and concern

for the decedent; and

(9) the persons who were acting as the guardians of the

person of the decedent at the time of death[ ;

[ (10) the hospital administrator; and

[ (11) any other person having the authority to dispose

of the decedent's body ].

SECTION 2. Section 692A.009(a), Health and Safety Code, as

amended by this Act, applies only to an anatomical gift made on or

after the effective date of this Act. An anatomical gift made

before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in

effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that

law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027.