Bill Text: TX HB3446 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to signs required to be displayed at certain facilities that perform abortions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3446 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3446-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Laubenberg, Burkett, et al. | H.B. No. 3446 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3446: | |||
By: Harless | C.S.H.B. No. 3446 |
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relating to signs required to be displayed at certain facilities | ||
that perform abortions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 171, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 171.0125 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 171.0125. REQUIRED SIGNS AT CERTAIN FACILITIES: | ||
AVAILABLE RESOURCES. (a) An ambulatory surgical center licensed | ||
under Chapter 243 that performs more than 50 abortions in any | ||
12-month period or an abortion facility licensed under Chapter 245 | ||
shall conspicuously display signs that satisfy the requirements of | ||
this section in each patient admission area, waiting room, | ||
restroom, and patient consulting room. | ||
(b) The signs required by this section must contain the | ||
following information: | ||
(1) a woman cannot be forced to have an abortion | ||
against her will, regardless of her age; | ||
(2) if a woman is being forced to have an abortion or | ||
being abused, the state is able to help the woman; and | ||
(3) human trafficking, including sex trafficking, is a | ||
violation of state law. | ||
(c) The signs required by this section must also contain a | ||
phone number for the Department of Public Safety and a toll-free | ||
phone number of a nationally recognized information and referral | ||
hotline for victims of human trafficking. | ||
(d) The signs required by this section may not contain any | ||
information other than the information described by Subsections (b) | ||
and (c). | ||
(e) The signs required by this section must each be at least | ||
11 inches in width and 17 inches in length. | ||
(f) A facility described by Subsection (a) shall post a sign | ||
required by this section in English and a sign in Spanish. If the | ||
facility is located in a political subdivision that is required to | ||
provide election materials in a language other than English or | ||
Spanish under Section 272.011, Election Code, the facility shall | ||
also post a sign in that language. | ||
(g) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as | ||
necessary to implement and enforce this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt the rules necessary to implement Section 171.0125, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. An ambulatory surgical center or abortion | ||
facility is not required to comply with Section 171.0125, Health | ||
and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before January 1, 2016. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |