§ 89.001.Definitions

Three definitions, and the first has a pointed exclusion.

"Device" means braces, artificial appliances, durable medical equipment, and other medical supplies. The term does not include a medical device that is injected, implanted, or otherwise placed in the human body.

The exclusion is the sensible line. A donated wheelchair, walker, or hospital bed can be inspected and its condition assessed. An implant cannot be re-donated safely at all, and the chapter does not encourage anyone to try.

"Donate" means to give without requiring anything of monetary value from the recipient — the same definition the food donor chapter uses.

"Nonprofit health care organization" has two branches. An organization 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) exempt and organized and operated for the purpose of providing free or reduced cost health care; or a bona fide charitable organization organized and operated for that purpose that dedicates its assets to charitable purposes and does not provide net earnings to, or operate in a manner that inures to the benefit of, an officer, employee, or shareholder.

The second branch does not require tax exemption, which follows the charitable immunity chapter's approach — a charitable operation qualifies whether or not it has filed for exempt status.