Cal. HSC § 1639.56
This is the official text of Cal. HSC § 1639.56, part of California’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health, hospitals, controlled substances, and environmental health standards.
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Official statutory text
The department shall submit a report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2003, including, but not limited to, examining and evaluating all of the following:
(a) Administrative expenditures of tissue banks.
(b) Current use of informed consent by tissue banks in tissue donation and recovery, including recommendations for improving and expanding informed consent policy.
(c) Full disclosure requirements by tissue banks to the donor or the person authorized to make a donation on behalf of a decedent of all potential uses of donated and recovered tissues.
(d) A system in which individuals with medically necessary conditions for which donated tissues are part of the prescribed treatment are given priority in receiving donated tissues, and the feasibility of state subsidies to implement the system.
(e) The current process for tissue recovery and distribution, including recommendations for improvement, where necessary.
(a) Administrative expenditures of tissue banks.
(b) Current use of informed consent by tissue banks in tissue donation and recovery, including recommendations for improving and expanding informed consent policy.
(c) Full disclosure requirements by tissue banks to the donor or the person authorized to make a donation on behalf of a decedent of all potential uses of donated and recovered tissues.
(d) A system in which individuals with medically necessary conditions for which donated tissues are part of the prescribed treatment are given priority in receiving donated tissues, and the feasibility of state subsidies to implement the system.
(e) The current process for tissue recovery and distribution, including recommendations for improvement, where necessary.
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