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Pro-Life Legislation

Priority: Abolish abortion by enacting legislation to stop the murder of unborn children; and to ignore and refuse to enforce any and all federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, and court rulings which would deprive an unborn child of the right to life.

 

Bills enacting priority in its entirety:

HB 948 Tinderholt
Relating to prohibiting abortion and recognizing the rights, powers, and privileges of all unborn children at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth; affecting criminal offenses and penalties.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 2/21

 

Bills also relating to priority:

SB 8 Schwertner | Campbell | Kolkhorst | Nelson | Perry
Relating to certain prohibited abortions and the treatment and disposition of a human fetus, human fetal tissue, and other tissue resulting from pregnancy; creating a civil cause of action; creating offenses.
Passed the Senate, Reported engrossed, Received in the House from the Senate, 3/16

 

SB 20 Taylor, Larry
Relating to health plan and health benefit plan coverage for abortions.
Passed the Senate, Reported engrossed, Received in the House from the Senate, 3/28

 

SB 25 Creighton | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Burton | Campbell | Estes | Hall | Hancock | Huffines | Huffman | Kolkhorst | Nelson | Nichols | Perry | Schwertner | Seliger | Taylor, Larry | Taylor, Van
Relating to eliminating the wrongful birth cause of action.

Passed the Senate, Reported engrossed, Received in the House from the Senate, 3/22

 

SB 139 Taylor, Van
Relating to the applicability of adverse licensing, listing, or registration decisions by certain health and human services agencies.
Scheduled for a public hearing in the House Public Health Committee on 5/2 at 8am in E2.012

 

SB 258 Huffines
Relating to the disposition of an unborn child’s remains after an abortion.
Passed Senate, Reported engrossed, Received in the House from the Senate (4/3)

 

SB 406 Hall
Relating to certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth, fetal death certificates, and the disposition of fetal remains; imposing administrative penalties.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 2/1

 

SB 415 Perry
Relating to a prohibition on the performance of dismemberment abortions; providing penalties; creating a criminal offense.
Passed the Senate, Reported engrossed, Received in the House from the Senate, 3/21

 

SB 855 Campbell
Relating to prohibiting certain transactions between a governmental entity and an abortion facility or affiliate of the facility.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 2/27
SB 872 Perry
Relating to reporting requirements by physicians and certain health care facilities regarding complications resulting from an abortion.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 2/27

 

SB 1377 Buckingham
Relating to human trafficking signs at abortion facilities and offenses associated with human trafficking and coerced abortion; increasing criminal penalties.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/16

 

SB 1427 Hancock | Campbell
Relating to providing information regarding perinatal hospice care and prohibiting discriminatory abortions; creating an administrative penalty, a civil remedy, and criminal offenses.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 3/20

 

SB 1602 Campbell | Perry
Relating to reporting requirements by healthcare practitioners and certain health care facilities for abortion complications and to an annual report by the Department of State Health Services; providing a civil penalty.
Placed on Senate Intent Calendar for 4/26

 

SB 1948 Hughes
Relating to electronic reporting requirements for an abortion facility.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 3/27

 

SJR 9 Hall
Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent authorized under federal constitutional law.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee, 1/25

 

HB 35 Cook
Relating to the disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains; imposing a civil penalty.
Reported favorably as substituted out of State Affairs Committee, 4/17

 

HB 87 Schaefer
Relating to the regulation of abortion procedures.
Referred to State Affairs, 2/13

 

HB 144 Schaefer
Relating to electronic reporting requirements for an abortion facility.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 2/13

 

HB 200 Burkett
Relating to certain prohibited abortions and the treatment and disposition of a human fetus, human fetal tissue, and other tissue resulting from pregnancy; creating a civil cause of action; creating offenses.
Reported favorably as substituted out of State Affairs Committee, 4/17

 

HB 201 Cook
Relating to disposition of fetal remains by a healthcare facility; imposing penalties.
No action taken in State Affairs Committee, 3/8

 

HB 434 Simmons
Relating to eliminating the wrongful birth cause of action.

Committee Report sent to Calendars, 4/24

 

HB 612 Leach
Relating to voluntary and informed consent to an abortion and prevention of coerced abortions; providing penalties; creating an offense.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 2/22

 

HB 844 Klick
Relating to a prohibition on the performance of dismemberment abortions; providing penalties; creating a criminal offense.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 2/21

 

HB 872 Roberts
Relating to the applicability of certain laws to an agreement authorizing certain persons to make decisions regarding a child.
Referred to Human Services Committee, 2/23

 

HB 1049 Swanson
Relating to prohibited acts regarding abortion for a physician or applicant for a medical license.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/6

 

HB 1113 Smithee
Relating to health plan and health benefit plan coverage for abortions.
Scheduled for a public hearing in the State Affairs Committee on 5/3 at 10:30 am or upon final adjourn./recess in JHR 140

HB 1936 Springer
Relating to prohibiting certain transactions between a governmental entity and an abortion facility or affiliate of the facility.
Reported favorably as substituted out of State Affairs Committee, 4/27

 

HB 1960 Laubenberg
Relating to the applicability of adverse licensing, listing, or registration decisions by certain health and human services agencies.
Referred to Public Health Committee, 3/20

 

HB 1971 Schaefer
Relating to providing information regarding perinatal hospice care and prohibiting discriminatory abortions; creating an administrative penalty, a civil remedy, and criminal offenses.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/15

 

HB 2348 Swanson
Relating to certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth, fetal death certificates, and the disposition of fetal remains; imposing administrative penalties.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/20

 

HB 2349 Swanson
Relating to the filing of a fetal death certificate after an abortion.
Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/30

 

HB 2858 Burns | Shine | Paul
Relating to human trafficking signs at abortion facilities and offenses associated with human trafficking and coerced abortion; increasing criminal penalties.
Left pending in State Affairs Committee on 4/12
HB 2962 Capriglione
Relating to reporting requirements by health care practitioners and certain health care facilities for abortion complications; creating a criminal offense.
Reported favorably as substituted out of State Affairs Committee, 4/17

 

HB 3246 Leach
Relating to voluntary and informed consent to an abortion and actions to be taken by an abortion provider to prevent coerced abortions and human trafficking.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/30

 

HB 3248 Leach
Relating to prevention of coerced abortions and human trafficking; creating an offense.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/30

 

HB 3544 Cain
Relating to prohibited state contracts with vendors that perform elective abortions, destructive embryonic stem cell research, or human cloning or that conduct research on human fetal tissue.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/31

 

HB 3771 Cook
Relating to the definition of abortion for the purpose of the regulation of abortion facilities.

Reported favorably as substituted out of State Affairs Committee, 4/19

 

HJR 104 Shaheen
Urging the Congress of the United States to propose for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution which would prohibit, with one exception, the practice of abortion within the United States or in any place subject to their jurisdiction or, in the alternative, applying to Congress to call a convention, pursuant to Article V of that Constitution, for the specific and limited purpose of proposing such an amendment to that Constitution for ratification.
Referred to State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select, 3/20

 

HJR 121 Fallon
Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent possible and to be known as the “Life at Conception provision of the Texas Constitution’s Bill of Rights”.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/31

 

HJR 122 Swanson
Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent authorized under federal constitutional law.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/31

 

HJR 123 Krause | Burrows | Schaefer
Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent possible.

Referred to State Affairs Committee, 3/31

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