Bill Text: TX HB4552 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to pregnancy resource center reporting requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Public Health [HB4552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4552-Introduced.html
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By: Ramos | H.B. No. 4552 |
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relating to pregnancy resource center reporting requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 174 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 174. PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS | ||
Sec. 174.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "pregnancy | ||
resource center" means an organization, including a pregnancy | ||
counseling organization, crisis pregnancy center, pregnancy care | ||
center, or pregnancy support center, that for a fee or free of | ||
charge provides pregnancy counseling or information but: | ||
(1) does not perform abortions or make referrals to an | ||
abortion provider; | ||
(2) does not provide or make referrals for | ||
comprehensive birth control services; | ||
(3) is not licensed or certified by this state or the | ||
federal government to provide medical or health care services; and | ||
(4) is not required to have a physician under contract | ||
to provide or directly supervise all health care services provided | ||
by the organization. | ||
Sec. 174.002. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) Each pregnancy | ||
resource center shall submit a monthly report to the commission | ||
containing information on each patient receiving services provided | ||
by the center. The report must be submitted on the form prescribed | ||
by the commission and made available on the commission's Internet | ||
website. | ||
(b) The report must include: | ||
(1) the licensing status of the center; | ||
(2) each patient's year of birth, race, marital | ||
status, and county and state of residence; | ||
(3) the type of services provided; | ||
(4) the date the services were provided; | ||
(5) the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn | ||
child based on the best judgment of the attending physician or other | ||
health care practitioner at the time services were provided; | ||
(6) the date, if known, of each patient's last | ||
menstrual cycle; | ||
(7) the number of previous live births of each | ||
patient; and | ||
(8) the number of previous induced abortions of each | ||
patient, if applicable. | ||
(c) Not later than the 15th day of each month, the pregnancy | ||
resource center shall submit to the commission the report required | ||
by this section for each person receiving services provided by the | ||
center in the preceding calendar month. | ||
(d) The commission shall provide the information submitted | ||
under this section biannually in a report to the members of the | ||
legislature. | ||
(e) The commission shall remove the name, birth date, and | ||
any other personal identifying information of a patient from a | ||
report submitted under Subsection (d). | ||
(f) A pregnancy resource center or health care practitioner | ||
that violates this section is subject to disciplinary action by the | ||
state agency that regulates the center or practitioner as if the | ||
center or practitioner had violated the applicable licensing law. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |