Bill Text: TX HB4755 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the services provided under the alternatives to abortion program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Public Health [HB4755 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4755-Introduced.html
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By: Leach | H.B. No. 4755 |
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relating to the services provided under the alternatives to | ||
abortion program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 54 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 54. ALTERNATIVES TO ABORTION PROGRAM | ||
Sec. 54.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "alternatives to | ||
abortion program" means the program established by the commission | ||
to enhance and increase resources that promote childbirth for women | ||
facing unplanned pregnancy. | ||
Sec. 54.002. PATIENT NAVIGATOR SERVICES FOR CERTAIN | ||
EXPECTANT PARENTS. (a) The alternatives to abortion program must | ||
provide access to a third-party patient navigator for expectant | ||
mothers and fathers who receive a prenatal diagnosis for their | ||
unborn child of a significant fetal anomaly, rare disorder, or | ||
other chronic, medically complex disability or condition. | ||
(b) A third-party patient navigator who provides services | ||
under the alternatives to abortion program shall: | ||
(1) connect expectant parents with support and | ||
advocacy groups specific to the fetal diagnosis for their child; | ||
and | ||
(2) assist expectant parents with applying for home- | ||
and community-based medical care, support, and services for their | ||
child. | ||
Sec. 54.003. NURSING FACILITY DIVERSION. (a) The | ||
alternatives to abortion program must provide nursing facility | ||
diversion space to allow immediate access to the medically | ||
dependent children (MDCP) waiver program for children born with a | ||
rare disorder or other chronic, medically complex disability or | ||
condition. | ||
(b) An expectant mother or father may apply for access to a | ||
nursing facility diversion space described by Subsection (a) before | ||
or after the child's birth. | ||
Sec. 54.004. RULES. The executive commissioner shall adopt | ||
rules as necessary to implement this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |