Bill Text: TX HB1426 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on the issuance or enforcement of a search warrant, subpoena, or other court order for certain menstrual health data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-20 - Filed [HB1426 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1426-Introduced.html
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| By: Bucy | H.B. No. 1426 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on the issuance or enforcement of a search | ||
| warrant, subpoena, or other court order for certain menstrual | ||
| health data. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 18.0216 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 18.0216. MENSTRUAL HEALTH DATA: SEARCH AND SEIZURE | ||
| PROHIBITED. (a) In this article, "menstrual health data" means any | ||
| information, recorded in any format, that is created or received by | ||
| an entity and that relates to or is used to determine, predict, or | ||
| estimate an individual's past, present, or future menstrual health | ||
| or menstrual cycles. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Article 18.02 or any other provision of | ||
| this code, a magistrate may not issue a search warrant, subpoena, or | ||
| other court order, and a law enforcement agency may not serve, | ||
| execute, or otherwise enforce a search warrant, subpoena, or other | ||
| court order for purposes of searching for, seizing, or ordering the | ||
| production of the menstrual health data of an individual, including | ||
| data stored on a computer, computer network, or other device | ||
| containing electronic or digital information. | ||
| (c) Menstrual health data obtained in violation of this | ||
| article and expert testimony related to the data are inadmissible | ||
| in a criminal action. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
