Bill Text: TX HB46 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 46 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to providing information and other services relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-10 - Referred to State Affairs [HB46 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB46-Introduced.html

	83S20088 KKR-F

	By: N. Gonzalez of El Paso	H.B. No. 46



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to providing information and other services relating to
	emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 323, Health and Safety Code, is amended
	by adding Sections 323.0051 and 323.0052 to read as follows:
	Sec. 323.0051. EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE INFORMATION. (a)
	The department shall develop a standard information form for sexual
	assault survivors that includes information regarding emergency
	contraception.
	(b) Emergency contraception information contained in the
	form must be medically and factually accurate and unbiased. The
	department may use appropriate medical organizations and
	associations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians and
	Gynecologists, as resources in developing the form.
	(c) The information form shall be published in:
	(1) an easily comprehensible form; and
	(2) a typeface large enough to be clearly legible.
	(d) The department shall annually review the information
	form to determine if changes to the contents of the form are
	necessary.
	(e) A health care facility shall use the standard form
	developed under this section.
	Sec. 323.0052. EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY
	CONTRACEPTION. In addition to the other services and information
	required under this chapter, after a sexual assault survivor
	arrives at a health care facility for emergency care following an
	alleged sexual assault, the facility shall:
	(1) provide the sexual assault survivor with the
	information form required under Section 323.0051;
	(2) orally communicate to the sexual assault survivor
	the information regarding emergency contraception contained in the
	information form provided under Subdivision (1);
	(3) if indicated by the history of contact, orally
	inform the sexual assault survivor that the survivor may request
	and be provided with emergency contraception at the facility; and
	(4) if not medically contraindicated and if the
	survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test and that pregnancy
	test produces a negative result, provide the sexual assault
	survivor with emergency contraception immediately on request of the
	survivor.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect November 1, 2013.