By: Price, Leach, Flynn, Burkett, Zerwas, H.B. No. 635
et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disposition of fetal remains.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 241.010 to read as follows:
Sec. 241.010. DISPOSITION OF FETAL REMAINS. (a) A hospital
shall release the remains of an unintended, intrauterine fetal
death on the request of a parent of the unborn child, in a manner
appropriate under law and the hospital's policy for disposition of
a human body.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), if the remains of an
unintended, intrauterine fetal death weigh less than 350 grams, a
hospital shall release the remains on the request of a parent of the
unborn child, in a manner that is appropriate under law and
consistent with hospital policy.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.