Tex. Health and Safety Code § 691.001
DEFINITIONS
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- Tex. Health and Safety Code § 691.001, DEFINITIONS, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/675157
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In this chapter:
(1) "Advisory committee" means the State Anatomical Advisory Committee.
(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.
(2) "Body" means a human corpse.
(3) "Anatomical specimen" means a part of a human corpse.
(4) "Commission" means the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
(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.
(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.