Bill Text: TX HCR102 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Concurrent Resolution 102 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Memorializing the United States Congress to enact comprehensive legislation to protect religious liberty and individual conscience rights of all participants involved in accessing or providing health care.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Public Health [HCR102 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HCR102-Introduced.html

	82R7229 BPG-D

	By: Morrison	H.C.R. No. 102



	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, Religious liberty is a cornerstone on which our
	nation was founded, and the right of individual conscience has also
	long been held sacrosanct in this country; however, neither are
	adequately addressed in the provisions of the Patient Protection
	and Affordable Care Act of 2010; and
	WHEREAS, The PPACA fails to make appropriate allowances for
	the religious, moral, or ethical beliefs held by patients, groups,
	employers, individual health care providers, health care
	facilities such as hospitals, insurance providers, or purchasers of
	health care insurance; and
	WHEREAS, Religiously affiliated hospitals, clinics, nursing
	homes, and other health facilities provide a substantial and
	indispensable portion of health care services and are governed by
	specific religious and moral codes central to their mission as
	health care providers; moreover, health insurers strive to provide
	flexible and diverse products to meet a wide variety of needs, and
	they must be able to tailor their products to the religious, moral,
	and ethical beliefs of their prospective customers; and
	WHEREAS, While tremendous structural change is taking place
	in the American health care system, it must not compromise the right
	of participants to follow their beliefs; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas
	hereby memorialize the Congress of the United States to enact
	comprehensive legislation to protect the religious liberty and
	individual conscience rights of all participants involved in
	accessing or providing of health care, favoring no set of beliefs
	over another and ensuring that all may participate in the health
	care system in a manner consistent with their beliefs and
	conscience; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
	copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
	the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the
	members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that
	this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a
	memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.