Tex. Health & Safety Code § 697.005 · Chapter 697. DISPOSITION OF EMBRYONIC AND FETAL TISSUE REMAINS
BURIAL OR CREMATION ASSISTANCE REGISTRY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department shall:
(1) establish and maintain a registry of:
(A) participating funeral homes and cemeteries willing to provide free common burial or low-cost private burial; and
(B) private nonprofit organizations that register with the department to provide financial assistance for the costs associated with burial or cremation of the embryonic and fetal tissue remains of an unborn child; and
(2) make the registry information available on request to a physician, health care facility, or agent of a physician or health care facility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 441 (S.B. 8), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.697.htm
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