Bill Text: TX SB516 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to registration as an organ donor and a voluntary contribution to the organ donor registry when applying for a hunting or fishing license.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Left pending in committee [SB516 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB516-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 516 | |
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| relating to registration as an organ donor and a voluntary | ||
| contribution to the organ donor registry when applying for a | ||
| hunting or fishing license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Sections 12.0075 and 12.0076 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 12.0075. ORGAN DONOR REGISTRATION. A person who is | ||
| authorized under this code to issue a hunting or fishing license of | ||
| any type, including a combination hunting and fishing license, | ||
| shall, at the time an applicant applies for a hunting or fishing | ||
| license: | ||
| (1) specifically ask the applicant only the question, | ||
| "Would you like to register as an organ donor?"; and | ||
| (2) if the applicant responds affirmatively to the | ||
| question asked under Subdivision (1), provide the applicant's name, | ||
| date of birth, driver's license number, most recent address, and | ||
| other information needed for identification purposes at the time of | ||
| donation to the nonprofit organization designated to maintain and | ||
| administer the statewide donor registry under Section 692A.020, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, for inclusion in the registry. | ||
| Sec. 12.0076. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION TO ORGAN DONOR | ||
| REGISTRY. (a) When a person applies for a hunting or fishing | ||
| license of any type, including a combination hunting and fishing | ||
| license, under this code, the person may make a voluntary | ||
| contribution to the nonprofit organization designated to maintain | ||
| and administer the statewide donor registry under Section 692A.020, | ||
| Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The department shall: | ||
| (1) include space on the first page of each | ||
| application for a hunting or fishing license that allows a person | ||
| applying for the license to indicate the amount that the person is | ||
| voluntarily contributing to the organization; and | ||
| (2) provide an opportunity for the person to | ||
| contribute to the organization during the application process for a | ||
| hunting or fishing license on the department's Internet website. | ||
| (c) The department shall send any contribution made under | ||
| this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the | ||
| Glenda Dawson Donate Life-Texas Registry fund created under Section | ||
| 692A.020, Health and Safety Code, not later than the 14th day of | ||
| each month. Before sending the money to the comptroller, the | ||
| department may deduct money equal to the amount of reasonable | ||
| expenses for developing and administering this section, not to | ||
| exceed two percent of the money collected under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. To implement Sections 12.0075 and 12.0076, Parks | ||
| and Wildlife Code, as added by this Act, the Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Commission shall adopt rules as needed and the Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Department shall develop procedures to implement those sections. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
