Bill Text: TX HB1084 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of in vitro fertilization procedures; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1084 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1084-Introduced.html
By: Curry | H.B. No. 1084 |
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relating to the regulation of in vitro fertilization procedures; | ||
authorizing an administrative penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 174 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 174. IN VITRO FERTILIZATION | ||
Sec. 174.001. REGULATION OF IN VITRO FERTILIZATION | ||
PROCEDURES. Notwithstanding any other law, a physician or other | ||
health care practitioner: | ||
(1) may perform in vitro fertilization procedures only | ||
on an individual who intends to carry to term each embryo implanted | ||
during the procedures; and | ||
(2) may not terminate any unborn child in a multifetal | ||
pregnancy resulting from in vitro fertilization procedures. | ||
Sec. 174.002. ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY. The appropriate | ||
licensing authority may impose an administrative penalty against a | ||
physician or other health care practitioner who violates this | ||
chapter in the same manner and using the same procedures as the | ||
authority uses to impose an administrative penalty against a | ||
physician or practitioner who violates the authority's licensing or | ||
other regulatory laws or rules. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |