Bill Text: TX HB128 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the use of appropriated state funds for abortion services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Appropriations [HB128 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB128-Introduced.html

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85S10148 MK-D
By: Leach H.B. No. 128

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting the use of appropriated state funds for
abortion services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2113.001, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2113.001. DEFINITIONS. Except as otherwise provided
by this chapter, in this chapter:
(1) "Appropriated money" means money appropriated by
the legislature through the General Appropriations Act or other
law.
(2) "State agency" means:
(A) a department, commission, board, office, or
other entity in the executive branch of state government;
(B) the supreme court, the court of criminal
appeals, another entity in the judicial branch of state government
with statewide authority, or a court of appeals; or
(C) a university system or an institution of
higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code,
except that a public junior college is excluded from the meaning of
the term in all of Subchapter C except Sections [Section] 2113.101
and 2113.108 and all of Subchapter D except Section 2113.205.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 2113, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2113.108 to read as follows:
Sec. 2113.108. ABORTION SERVICES. A state agency or a
political subdivision may not use appropriated money to pay or
reimburse, directly or through a contract or grant, a person that
pays for or provides abortion services.
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.