Bill Text: TX SB537 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to minimum standards for abortion facilities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-20 - Co-author authorized [SB537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB537-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to minimum standards for abortion facilities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-20 - Co-author authorized [SB537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB537-Introduced.html
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By: Deuell, Campbell, Schwertner | S.B. No. 537 |
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relating to minimum standards for abortion facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 245.010(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The rules must contain minimum standards to protect the | ||
health and safety of a patient of an abortion facility and must | ||
contain provisions requiring compliance with the requirements of | ||
Subchapter B, Chapter 171. On and after September 1, 2014, the | ||
minimum standards for an abortion facility must be equivalent to | ||
the minimum standards adopted under Section 243.010 for ambulatory | ||
surgical centers. | ||
SECTION 2. Effective September 1, 2014, Section 245.010(c), | ||
Health and Safety Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall adopt the standards required by | ||
Section 245.010, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, not | ||
later than January 1, 2014. | ||
(b) A facility licensed under Chapter 245, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is not required to comply with the standards adopted under | ||
Section 245.010, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, | ||
before September 1, 2014. | ||
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 September 1, 2013. |