Bill Text: TX HB747 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of information and other services relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-05 - Left pending in committee [HB747 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB747-Introduced.html
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By: Farrar | H.B. No. 747 |
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relating to the provision of information and other services | ||
relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 323, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Sections 323.0051 and 323.0052 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 323.0051. EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE INFORMATION. (a) | ||
The department shall develop a standard information form for sexual | ||
assault survivors that includes information regarding emergency | ||
contraception. | ||
(b) Emergency contraception information contained in the | ||
information form must be medically and factually accurate and | ||
unbiased. The department may use appropriate medical organizations | ||
and associations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians | ||
and Gynecologists, as resources in developing the form. | ||
(c) The information form shall be published in: | ||
(1) an easily comprehensible form; and | ||
(2) a typeface large enough to be clearly legible. | ||
(d) The department shall annually review the information | ||
form to determine if changes to the contents of the form are | ||
necessary. | ||
(e) A health care facility shall use the information form | ||
developed under this section. | ||
Sec. 323.0052. EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY | ||
CONTRACEPTION. In addition to the other services and information | ||
required under this chapter, after a sexual assault survivor | ||
arrives at a health care facility for emergency care following an | ||
alleged sexual assault, the facility shall: | ||
(1) provide the survivor with the information form | ||
required under Section 323.0051; | ||
(2) orally communicate to the survivor the information | ||
regarding emergency contraception contained in the form provided | ||
under Subdivision (1); | ||
(3) if indicated by the history of contact, orally | ||
inform the survivor that the survivor may request and be provided | ||
with emergency contraception at the facility; and | ||
(4) if not medically contraindicated and if the | ||
survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test and that pregnancy | ||
test produces a negative result, provide the survivor with | ||
emergency contraception immediately on request of the survivor. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |