Tex. Health & Safety Code § 55.001 · Chapter 55. LIVING ORGAN DONOR EDUCATION PROGRAM
ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department shall establish a living organ donor education program to educate residents of this state about:
(1) the need for living organ donors, including the particular need for donors from minority populations;
(2) the partnership between the Glenda Dawson Donate Life Texas Registry for deceased organ donation, maintained by Donate Life Texas, and other organ donor registries for living organ donation;
(3) the requirements for registering as a potential living organ donor;
(4) the medical screening and procedures necessary for an individual to be a living organ donor; and
(5) the availability of information about living organ donation in health care facilities, transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, tissue banks, eye banks, and driver's license offices.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 88 (S.B. 1249), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Redesignated from Health and Safety Code, Chapter 54 by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 204 (H.B. 1620), Sec. 22.001(18), eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.55.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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