Bill Text: TX SB60 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity for procurement of an abortion or the services of an abortion provider.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [SB60 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB60-Introduced.html
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| By: Campbell | S.B. No. 60 | |
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| relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity | ||
| for procurement of an abortion or the services of an abortion | ||
| provider. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2273, Government Code, as redesignated | ||
| by H.B. 3607, Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
| and effective September 1, 2021, is amended by adding Section | ||
| 2273.0031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2273.0031. LOGISTICAL SUPPORT PROHIBITED. (a) Except | ||
| as provided by Subsection (b), a governmental entity may not enter | ||
| into a taxpayer resource transaction or appropriate or spend money | ||
| to provide to any person logistical support for the express purpose | ||
| of assisting a woman with procuring an abortion or the services of | ||
| an abortion provider. Logistical support includes providing money | ||
| for: | ||
| (1) child care; | ||
| (2) travel or any form of transportation to or from an | ||
| abortion provider; | ||
| (3) lodging; | ||
| (4) food or food preparation; | ||
| (5) counseling that encourages a woman to have an | ||
| abortion; and | ||
| (6) any other service that facilitates the provision | ||
| of an abortion. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to a taxpayer resource | ||
| transaction entered into or money appropriated or spent by a | ||
| governmental entity that is subject to a federal law in conflict | ||
| with Subsection (a) as determined by the executive commissioner of | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission and confirmed in writing | ||
| by the attorney general. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2273.004(a), Government Code, as | ||
| redesignated and amended by H.B. 3607, Acts of the 87th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, and effective September 1, | ||
| 2021, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of | ||
| the state to enjoin a violation of Section 2273.003 or 2273.0031. | ||
| The attorney general may recover reasonable attorney's fees and | ||
| costs incurred in bringing an action under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 3. It is the intent of the legislature that every | ||
| provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word | ||
| in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to | ||
| each person or entity, are severable from each other. If any | ||
| application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of | ||
| persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any | ||
| reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other | ||
| persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect December 1, 2021. | ||
