Bill Text: TX HB191 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity for procurement of an abortion or the services of an abortion provider.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-19 - Filed [HB191 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB191-Introduced.html
| By: Noble | H.B. No. 191 | |
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| relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity | ||
| for procurement of an abortion or the services of an abortion | ||
| provider. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2272, Government Code, as added by | ||
| Chapter 501 (S.B. 22), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2019, is amended by adding Section 2272.0031 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 2272.0031. LOGISTICAL SUPPORT PROHIBITED. (a) Except | ||
| as provided by Subsection (b), a governmental entity may not enter | ||
| into a taxpayer resource transaction or appropriate or spend money | ||
| to provide to any person logistical support for the express purpose | ||
| of assisting a woman with procuring an abortion or the services of | ||
| an abortion provider. Logistical support includes providing money | ||
| for: | ||
| (1) child care; | ||
| (2) travel or any form of transportation to or from an | ||
| abortion provider; | ||
| (3) lodging; | ||
| (4) food or food preparation; | ||
| (5) counseling that encourages a woman to have an | ||
| abortion; and | ||
| (6) any other service that facilitates the provision | ||
| of an abortion. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to a taxpayer resource | ||
| transaction entered into or money appropriated or spent by a | ||
| governmental entity that is subject to a federal law in conflict | ||
| with Subsection (a) as determined by the executive commissioner of | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission and confirmed in writing | ||
| by the attorney general. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2272.004(a), Government Code, as added | ||
| by Chapter 501 (S.B. 22), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2019, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of | ||
| the state to enjoin a violation of Section 2272.003 or 2272.0031. | ||
| The attorney general may recover reasonable attorney's fees and | ||
| costs incurred in bringing an action under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 3. It is the intent of the legislature that every | ||
| provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word | ||
| in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to | ||
| each person or entity, are severable from each other. If any | ||
| application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of | ||
| persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any | ||
| reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other | ||
| persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
