Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 159.011 - Information About Embryo Donation(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.Added by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 331,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2017.