Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 487.253
Compassionate-use Institutional Review Boards

(a)

One or more compassionate-use institutional review boards may be established to:

(1)

evaluate and approve proposed research programs to study the medical use of low-THC cannabis in treating a medical condition designated by rule of the executive commissioner under Section 487.252 (Rules)(a); and

(2)

oversee patient treatment undertaken as part of an approved research program, including the certification of treating physicians.

(b)

An institutional review board must be affiliated with a dispensing organization and meet one of the following conditions:

(1)

be affiliated with a medical school, as defined by Section 61.501 (Definitions), Education Code;

(2)

be affiliated with a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 (Hospitals) that has at least 150 beds;

(3)

be accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs;

(4)

be registered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections, in accordance with 21 C.F.R. Part 56; or

(5)

be accredited by a national accreditation organization acceptable to the Texas Medical Board.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 660 (H.B. 1535), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.

Source: Section 487.253 — Compassionate-use Institutional Review Boards, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­487.­htm#487.­253 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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