Tex. Health & Safety Code § 173.005 · Chapter 173. DONATION OF HUMAN FETAL TISSUE
DONATION BY AUTHORIZED FACILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Only an authorized facility may donate human fetal tissue. An authorized facility may donate human fetal tissue only to an accredited public or private institution of higher education for use in research approved by an institutional review board or another appropriate board, committee, or body charged with oversight applicable to the research.
(b) An authorized facility may not donate human fetal tissue obtained from an elective abortion.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 441 (S.B. 8), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2017.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.173.htm
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