tx-July102026-73: 22 TAC §206.22 (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 §206.22, concerning Requirement for Self-Sufficiency. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE. Section 206.22 provides that schools and other major users of cadavers should establish a willed body program with the goal of becoming self-sufficient in obtaining cadavers for their own use within four years of instituting the program. The provision is aspirational and non-binding, and it does not correspond to the current statutory framework. Following Senate Bill 2040, 88th Legislature, Regular Session (2023) (Act of May 28, 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., ch. 961), effective September 1, 2023, the Commission distributes and redistributes bodies and anatomical specimens under Texas Health and Safety Code §691.030, giving priority to the schools and colleges that need bodies for lectures and demonstrations and otherwise distributing proportionately and equitably according to student enrollment. Because §206.22 is aspirational, non-binding, and does not correspond to the current statutory distribution framework, the Commission proposes to repeal it as obsolete. FISCAL NOTE. Ms. Maria Haynes, Executive Director of the Texas Funeral...
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