Bill Text: TX SB53 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the participation of a charitable organization that facilitates the procurement of an elective abortion in the state employee charitable campaign.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-17 - Filed [SB53 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB53-Introduced.html
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| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 53 | |
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| relating to the participation of a charitable organization that | ||
| facilitates the procurement of an elective abortion in the state | ||
| employee charitable campaign. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 659.146, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) To be eligible to participate in a state employee | ||
| charitable campaign, a charitable organization must: | ||
| (1) be governed by a voluntary board of citizens that | ||
| meets at least twice each year to set policy and manage the affairs | ||
| of the organization; | ||
| (2) if the organization's annual budget: | ||
| (A) does not exceed $250,000, provide a completed | ||
| Internal Revenue Service Form 990 and an accountant's review that | ||
| offers full and open disclosure of the organization's internal | ||
| operations; or | ||
| (B) exceeds $250,000, be audited annually in | ||
| accordance with generally accepted auditing standards of the | ||
| American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; [ |
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| (3) not spend more than 25 percent of its annual | ||
| revenue for administrative and fund-raising expenses; and | ||
| (4) not directly or indirectly facilitate the | ||
| procurement of an elective abortion. | ||
| (h) In this section, "elective abortion" means, for a female | ||
| known by an attending physician to be pregnant, the intentional | ||
| termination of the pregnancy using any means reasonably likely to | ||
| cause the death of the fetus. The term does not include the | ||
| termination of a pregnancy: | ||
| (1) that resulted from an act of rape or incest; | ||
| (2) for a female who suffers from a physical disorder, | ||
| disability, or illness, including a life-threatening physical | ||
| condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy, that, as | ||
| certified by a physician, places the female in danger of death or | ||
| risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an | ||
| abortion is performed; or | ||
| (3) that involves a fetus with a life-threatening | ||
| physical condition that, in reasonable medical judgment and | ||
| regardless of the provision of lifesaving treatment, is | ||
| incompatible with life outside the womb. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than April 1, 2018, the state employee | ||
| charitable campaign policy committee shall modify the guidelines | ||
| established under Section 659.146(f), Government Code, for | ||
| evaluating the applications of charitable organizations to be | ||
| consistent with the changes in law made by this Act. The state | ||
| employee charitable campaign policy committee shall exclude from | ||
| participation in a state employee charitable campaign any | ||
| charitable organization that does not meet the modified guidelines. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 December 1, 2017. | ||
