Bill Text: TX SB537 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Deuell, et al. | S.B. No. 537 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 2013; February 20, 2013, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
| Services; March 26, 2013, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 6, Nays 2; March 26, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to minimum standards for abortion facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 245.010, 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, Subsection (c), | ||
| Section 245.010, Health and Safety Code, is repealed.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. | ||
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