Bill Text: TX HB2322 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to information provided to a survivor of sexual assault at a health care facility that is not a SAFE-ready facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2322 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2322-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to information provided to a survivor of sexual assault at a health care facility that is not a SAFE-ready facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2322 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2322-Introduced.html
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By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 2322 |
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relating to information provided to a survivor of sexual assault at | ||
a health care facility that is not a SAFE-ready facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 323.0051(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall develop a standard information | ||
form for sexual assault survivors who arrive at a health care | ||
facility that is not a SAFE-ready facility. The information form | ||
must include: | ||
(1) information regarding the benefits of a forensic | ||
medical examination conducted by a sexual assault forensic | ||
examiner; | ||
(2) the Internet website address to the commission's | ||
list of SAFE-ready facilities that includes the facilities' | ||
physical addresses as required by Section 323.008; | ||
(3) the following statements: | ||
(A) "As a survivor of sexual assault, you have | ||
the right to receive a forensic medical examination at this | ||
hospital emergency room if you are requesting the examination not | ||
later than 120 hours after the assault."; and | ||
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rape crisis center for free and confidential assistance."; and | ||
(4) information on the procedure for submitting a | ||
complaint against the health care facility. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 September 1, 2023. |