{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-691.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 691.001","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Advisory committee\" means the State Anatomical Advisory Committee.\n(1-a) \"Anatomical facility\" means a facility in this state inspected and approved by the commission under Section 691.034 that does not operate as a willed body program or a non-transplant anatomical donation organization.\n(2) \"Body\" means a human corpse.\n(3) \"Anatomical specimen\" means a part of a human corpse.\n(4) \"Commission\" means the Texas Funeral Service Commission.\n(5) \"Non-transplant anatomical donation organization\" means a person accredited to engage in the recovery, receipt, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue or human remains for any purpose other than transplantation into a living individual in this state.\n(6) \"Willed body program\" means a program operated at an institution of higher education in this state that allows a living individual to donate the individual's body or anatomical specimen for educational or research purposes.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 948, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.\nAmended by:\nActs 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 961 (S.B. 2040), Sec. 1.03, eff. September 1, 2023.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 8. DEATH AND DISPOSITION OF THE BODY","SUBTITLE B. DISPOSITION OF THE BODY","CHAPTER 691. DONATION OF BODIES AND ANATOMICAL SPECIMENS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS; STATE ANATOMICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.691.htm#691.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"e9ef0ae74e8da92114eb13c619bc97532b29e905cd1bd62709979e7c75a7bdc2","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-674.011","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-691.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}