Bill Amendment: TX HB1 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: General Appropriations Bill.

Status: 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1-House_Amendment_H_2_348-Cain.html

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Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) in Article IX of the bill, in Part 6, General Limitations on Expenditures (page IX-28), by adding the following appropriately numbered section:

Sec. 6.____.  Prohibition on Spending Related to Human Fetal Tissue. Notwithstanding another provision of this Act and to the extent authorized by general law, money appropriated by this Act may not be used to:

(1)  purchase human fetal tissue obtained from an elective abortion; or

(2)  pay the direct or indirect costs, including overhead, rent, phones, or utilities, of research on any human fetal tissue obtained from an elective abortion.