Bill Text: TX SB39 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a marketing and outreach campaign and services to reduce unintended pregnancies and lower rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-11 - Filed [SB39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB39-Introduced.html
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| By: Garcia, Rodriguez | S.B. No. 39 | |
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| relating to a marketing and outreach campaign and services to | ||
| reduce unintended pregnancies and lower rates of sexually | ||
| transmitted diseases. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.095 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.095. UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES AND SEXUALLY | ||
| TRANSMITTED DISEASES: OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND SERVICES PROVIDED. (a) | ||
| To the extent money is available for the purposes provided by this | ||
| section, the commission shall provide adequate and sufficient | ||
| funding to conduct a comprehensive marketing and outreach campaign | ||
| to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and lower the rates | ||
| of sexually transmitted diseases. The campaign must include print | ||
| and broadcast media, Internet websites, and a toll-free telephone | ||
| number. | ||
| (b) The commission, the Legislative Budget Board, or the | ||
| governor, in providing adequate and sufficient funding for the | ||
| campaign as required by Subsection (a), may not take any action to | ||
| decrease the level of programs and services designed to reduce the | ||
| number of unintended pregnancies and lower the rates of sexually | ||
| transmitted diseases to below the level of programs and services | ||
| provided on September 1, 2013. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
