Bill Text: TX HB2308 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to facility reporting requirements for an abortion performed at an abortion facility.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - Left pending in committee [HB2308 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2308-Introduced.html
| By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 2308 | |
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| ating to facility reporting requirements for an abortion | ||
| performed at an abortion facility. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER C. ABORTION FACILITY PHYSICIAN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS | ||
| Sec. 171.051. PHYSICIAN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) A | ||
| physician who performs an abortion at an abortion facility licensed | ||
| under Chapter 245 must complete and submit to the department a | ||
| monthly report on each abortion performed by the physician at the | ||
| facility. The report must be submitted on a form provided by the | ||
| department. | ||
| (b) The report may not identify by any means the patient | ||
| undergoing the abortion. | ||
| (c) The report must include the information described by | ||
| Section 245.011(c). | ||
| (d) Not later than the 15th day of each month, a physician | ||
| shall submit by any means in which the receipt may be acknowledged | ||
| by the department the physician report required by this section for | ||
| each abortion performed by the physician at an abortion facility in | ||
| the preceding calendar month. | ||
| Sec. 171.052. PENALTIES. (a) The commissioner of state | ||
| health services may assess an administrative penalty against a | ||
| physician who fails to submit the physician report required by | ||
| Section 171.051 in the time specified under that section. The | ||
| amount of the penalty is $1,000 for the first 30-day period or | ||
| portion of a 30-day period the report remains overdue, $2,500 for | ||
| the second 30-day period, and $5,000 for each 30-day period | ||
| thereafter. | ||
| (b) The commissioner of state health services shall bring an | ||
| action against a physician who fails to file the report required by | ||
| Section 171.051 on or before six months after the date the report | ||
| was due to compel the physician to submit a complete report in the | ||
| time ordered by the court or be subject to sanctions for civil | ||
| contempt. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
