Bill Text: TX HB4804 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring social media platforms to include certain warnings in connection with advertisements for medical procedures or treatments conducted in a foreign country.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB4804 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4804-Introduced.html
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| By: Plesa | H.B. No. 4804 | |
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| relating to requiring social media platforms to include certain | ||
| warnings in connection with advertisements for medical procedures | ||
| or treatments conducted in a foreign country. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Laura Avila Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 16, Business & Commerce Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Chapter 722 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 722. CERTAIN ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MEDICAL TOURISM | ||
| Sec. 722.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter, "social media | ||
| platform" and "user" have the meanings assigned by Section 120.001. | ||
| Sec. 722.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter | ||
| applies only with respect to a user who resides in this state. | ||
| Sec. 722.003. WARNING ON CERTAIN MEDICAL TOURISM | ||
| ADVERTISEMENTS REQUIRED. The operator of a social media platform | ||
| shall include a warning to users of its platform in connection with | ||
| any advertisement that promotes the purchase of a medical procedure | ||
| or treatment that would be conducted in a foreign country. The | ||
| warning must be conspicuous and contain the following language: | ||
| WARNING | ||
| THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS FOR A MEDICAL PROCEDURE OR TREATMENT THAT IS | ||
| TO BE CONDUCTED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. UNDERGOING A MEDICAL | ||
| PROCEDURE OR TREATMENT IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS DANGEROUS. HEALTH | ||
| CARE PROVIDERS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY ARE NOT REGULATED BY OR | ||
| CERTIFIED UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE OR OF THE UNITED STATES. AN | ||
| INDIVIDUAL WHO UNDERGOES A MEDICAL PROCEDURE OR TREATMENT IN A | ||
| FOREIGN COUNTRY MAY ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTY LOCATING A HEALTH CARE | ||
| PROVIDER IN THIS STATE OR IN THE UNITED STATES THAT IS WILLING TO | ||
| TREAT THE INDIVIDUAL FOR HARM OR INJURY SUSTAINED AS A RESULT OF THE | ||
| PROCEDURE OR TREATMENT. | ||
| Sec. 722.004. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE. A violation of | ||
| Section 722.003 is a deceptive trade practice under Subchapter E, | ||
| Chapter 17, and is actionable under that subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
