Bill Text: TX SB1472 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing information and other services relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-19 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1472 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1472-Introduced.html
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| By: Garcia | S.B. No. 1472 | |
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| relating to providing 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 | ||
| 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 standard 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 sexual assault survivor with the | ||
| information form required under Section 323.0051; | ||
| (2) orally communicate to the sexual assault survivor | ||
| the information regarding emergency contraception contained in the | ||
| information form provided under Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) if indicated by the history of contact, orally | ||
| inform the sexual assault 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 sexual assault | ||
| survivor with emergency contraception immediately on request of the | ||
| survivor. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
