Bill Text: TX HB4960 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to information for the parents or guardians of pediatric cancer patients regarding risk of impaired fertility from treatment.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB4960 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4960-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to information for the parents or guardians of pediatric cancer patients regarding risk of impaired fertility from treatment.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB4960 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4960-Comm_Sub.html
88R25605 MPF-D | |||
By: Patterson | H.B. No. 4960 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4960: | |||
By: Klick | C.S.H.B. No. 4960 |
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relating to information for the parents or guardians of pediatric | ||
cancer patients regarding risk of impaired fertility from | ||
treatment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter X to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER X. INFORMATION REGARDING RISK OF IMPAIRED FERTILITY | ||
FROM CANCER TREATMENTS | ||
Sec. 161.681. NOTICE FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY OR | ||
RADIATION. (a) A health care facility at which a child will begin | ||
receiving chemotherapy or radiation that may directly or indirectly | ||
cause impaired fertility must, before the treatment begins, notify | ||
the child's parents or legal guardians of the risk of impaired | ||
fertility from treatment. | ||
(b) The department shall develop and make available a | ||
written notice for a health care facility to use for purposes of | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a child who will begin chemotherapy or radiation on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |