Bill Text: TX HB2949 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required consent of a health care provider, student, intern, or resident before directly or indirectly performing or participating in an abortion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to Public Health [HB2949 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2949-Introduced.html
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By: King of Parker | H.B. No. 2949 |
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relating to required consent of a health care provider, student, | ||
intern, or resident before directly or indirectly performing or | ||
participating in an abortion. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 103, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 103.0015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 103.0015. OPT IN REQUIRED. (a) A physician, nurse, | ||
staff member, or employee of a hospital or other health care | ||
facility or a student, intern, or resident at an educational | ||
institution may not be scheduled for or assigned to duties | ||
involving directly or indirectly performing or participating in an | ||
abortion procedure unless the physician, nurse, staff member, | ||
employee, student, intern, or resident first affirmatively | ||
consents to perform or participate in the procedure. | ||
(b) This section may not be construed to prohibit a student, | ||
intern, or resident from attending or viewing or a hospital, health | ||
care facility, or educational institution from providing lectures | ||
and course materials on the performance of an abortion. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |