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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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