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        relating to an anatomical gift on behalf of a resident in a state  | 
      
      
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        supported living center. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 555, Health and Safety  | 
      
      
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        Code, is amended by adding Section 555.027 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 555.027.  ANATOMICAL GIFT.  (a)  The executive  | 
      
      
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        commissioner by rule shall prescribe a form that a resident's  | 
      
      
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        guardian may sign on behalf of a resident if the resident's guardian  | 
      
      
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        elects to make an anatomical gift on behalf of the resident in  | 
      
      
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        accordance with Chapter 692A. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Subsection (a) does not preclude a guardian from  | 
      
      
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        executing a document in accordance with Chapter 692A that  | 
      
      
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        supersedes the form executed under that subsection. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2019, the executive  | 
      
      
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        commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall  | 
      
      
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        prescribe the form as required by Section 555.027, Health and  | 
      
      
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        Safety Code, as added by this Act. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the House on May 2,  | 
      
      
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        2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2734 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        21, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |