tx-July102026-72: 22 TAC §206.21 (Repeal) — Anatomical Facilities, Non-transplant Anatomical Donation Organizations, and Willed Body Programs
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The Texas Funeral Service Commission (Commission) proposes the repeal of §206.21, concerning Statement of the Willed Body Program. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE. Section 206.21 provides that each authorized institution or organization that avails itself of the option of conducting a willed body program should provide the secretary-treasurer of the board with a statement of its program, and that an applicant seeking authorization for the first time should include a statement of the provisional willed body program in its application. The section refers to the "board" and its "secretary-treasurer" - the Anatomical Board of the State of Texas and an office of that board - which no longer perform regulatory functions following Senate Bill 2040, 88th Legislature, Regular Session (2023) (Act of May 28, 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., ch. 961), effective September 1, 2023, which transferred regulation of willed body programs to the Commission. Under Texas Health and Safety Code §691.034, a willed body program now registers with the Commission in the form and manner the Commission prescribes. Because §206.21 references offices that no longer exist and is duplicative of the statutory registration...
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