Bill Text: TX SB24 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of informational materials and certain other information to a pregnant woman before an abortion.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB24-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 24 | ||
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| relating to the provision of informational materials and certain | ||
| other information to a pregnant woman before an abortion. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 171.012, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (f) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The information required to be provided under | ||
| Subsections (a)(1) and (2) may not be provided by audio or video | ||
| recording and must be provided at least 24 hours before the abortion | ||
| is to be performed: | ||
| (1) orally and in person in a private and confidential | ||
| setting if the pregnant woman currently lives less than 100 miles | ||
| from the nearest abortion provider that is a facility licensed | ||
| under Chapter 245 or a facility that performs more than 50 abortions | ||
| in any 12-month period; or | ||
| (2) orally by telephone on a private call or in person | ||
| in a private and confidential setting if the pregnant woman | ||
| certifies that the woman currently lives 100 miles or more from the | ||
| nearest abortion provider that is a facility licensed under Chapter | ||
| 245 or a facility that performs more than 50 abortions in any | ||
| 12-month period. | ||
| (f) The physician who is to perform the abortion, or the | ||
| physician's designee, shall in person hand to the pregnant woman a | ||
| copy of the informational materials described by Section 171.014: | ||
| (1) on the day of the consultation required under | ||
| Subsection (a)(4) for a pregnant woman who lives less than 100 miles | ||
| from the nearest abortion provider that is a facility licensed | ||
| under Chapter 245 or a facility in which more than 50 abortions are | ||
| performed in any 12-month period; or | ||
| (2) before any sedative or anesthesia is administered | ||
| to the pregnant woman on the day of the abortion and at least two | ||
| hours before the abortion if the woman lives 100 miles or more from | ||
| the nearest abortion provider that is a facility licensed under | ||
| Chapter 245 or a facility in which more than 50 abortions are | ||
| performed in any 12-month period. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 171.012, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies only to an abortion performed on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 24 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays 9. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 24 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 88, Nays 54, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
