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.
Spectrum: 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. | ||
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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: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |