Tex. Occ. Code § 159.011 · Chapter 159. PHYSICIAN-PATIENT COMMUNICATION
INFORMATION ABOUT EMBRYO DONATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section:
(1) "Assisted reproduction" has the meaning assigned by Section 160.102, Family Code.
(2) "Embryo donation" means the act of transferring to another person a human embryo for implantation in any person who is not a genetic parent of the human embryo or the spouse of a genetic parent of the human embryo.
(3) "Human embryo" means a genetically complete living organism of the species Homo sapiens, from the single-cell fertilized egg to the blastocyst stage.
(b) A physician who performs on a patient an assisted reproduction procedure that involves the creation of a human embryo shall inform the patient of the option of embryo donation for unused human embryos.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 331 (H.B. 785), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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