Bill Text: TX HB561 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a hospital district's use of tax revenue to finance the performance of an abortion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB561 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB561-Comm_Sub.html
82R17788 CJC-D | |||
By: Christian, Huberty, Craddick, Hilderbran, | H.B. No. 561 | ||
Cook, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 561: | |||
By: Cook | C.S.H.B. No. 561 |
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relating to a hospital district's use of tax revenue to finance the | ||
performance of an abortion. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter M, Chapter 285, Health | ||
and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER M. REGULATION [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter M, Chapter 285, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 285.202 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 285.202. PROHIBITED USE OF TAX REVENUE FOR ABORTIONS; | ||
EXCEPTION FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY. (a) In this section, "medical | ||
emergency" means a life-threatening physical condition aggravated | ||
by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a | ||
physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of | ||
substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an | ||
abortion is performed. | ||
(b) Except in the case of a medical emergency, a hospital | ||
district created under general or special law may not use tax | ||
revenue of the district to finance the performance of an abortion. | ||
(c) A physician who performs an abortion in a medical | ||
emergency at a hospital or other health care facility owned or | ||
operated by a hospital district shall: | ||
(1) include in the patient's medical records a | ||
statement signed by the physician certifying the nature of the | ||
medical emergency; and | ||
(2) not later than the 30th day after the date the | ||
abortion is performed, certify to the Department of State Health | ||
Services the specific medical condition that constituted the | ||
emergency. | ||
(d) The statement required under Subsection (c)(1) shall be | ||
placed in the patient's medical records and shall be kept by the | ||
hospital or other health care facility where the abortion is | ||
performed until: | ||
(1) the seventh anniversary of the date the abortion | ||
is performed; or | ||
(2) if the pregnant woman is a minor, the later of: | ||
(A) the seventh anniversary of the date the | ||
abortion is performed; or | ||
(B) the woman's 21st birthday. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |