Tex. Health & Safety Code § 691.026 · Subchapter B. DONATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BODIES AND ANATOMICAL SPECIMENS
BODY OF TRAVELER.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If an unclaimed body is the body of a traveler who died suddenly, the commission shall direct the institution or other person receiving the body to retain the body for six months for purposes of identification.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 624 (S.B. 1214), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2015.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 961 (S.B. 2040), Sec. 1.12, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.691.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 7a72939ca012fd3fac6da2f521d5ffaf5c677f3000b78bf494b97e9c94b58a1b
- Composed by
- 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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