Bill Text: TX HB3446 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Laubenberg | 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 Sections 171.0125 and 171.0126 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 a sign that satisfies the requirements | ||
of this section in each patient admission area, waiting room, and | ||
patient consulting room. | ||
(b) The sign required by this section must be in English and | ||
Spanish and display the following text: | ||
You can't be forced. No one can make you have an abortion | ||
against your will, even if you are a minor. In fact, forcing a | ||
minor to have an abortion is considered child abuse. If you | ||
are a minor being forced into making a particular decision, | ||
you can report it by calling the Texas Abuse Hotline at | ||
1-800-252-5400. The call is free and the hotline operates 24 | ||
hours per day, 365 days per year. | ||
You and the father. The father of your child must provide | ||
support for the child, even if he has offered to pay for an | ||
abortion. The Child Support Division of the Office of the | ||
Attorney General can help you locate your child's father and | ||
determine that he is the father. The Child Support Division | ||
can also help establish and enforce child support orders and | ||
collect money owed, as well as distribute child support | ||
payments. To learn more about child support services, call | ||
the Child Support Division at (512) 460-6000. | ||
You and adoption. The law allows adoptive parents to pay | ||
costs of prenatal care, childbirth, and newborn care. To | ||
learn more about adoption services and the organizations | ||
available to assist you, call Woman's Right to Know at (512) | ||
776-6917. | ||
You are not alone. Many agencies are willing to help you carry | ||
your child to term and to assist you after your child's birth. | ||
This includes providing access to health care services for | ||
mother and baby, supplies, healthy food items, nutrition | ||
education, and in-home support. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and | ||
enforce this section. | ||
Sec. 171.0126. REQUIRED SIGNS AT CERTAIN FACILITIES: HUMAN | ||
TRAFFICKING. (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 a sign that satisfies the requirements of | ||
this section in each patient admission area, waiting room, and | ||
patient consulting room. | ||
(b) The sign required by this section must be in English and | ||
Spanish and display the following text: | ||
WARNING: Being forced to engage in sexual activity or forced | ||
to obtain an abortion is illegal under Texas law. Call the national | ||
human trafficking hotline: 1-888-373-7888. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission 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 Sections 171.0125 and | ||
171.0126, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. An ambulatory surgical center or abortion | ||
facility is not required to comply with Sections 171.0125 and | ||
171.0126, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before | ||
January 1, 2016. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |