Bill Amendment: TX SB1040 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to health benefit plan coverage of a transplant of an organ that originated from or is transplanted in a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting.

Status: 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1040 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1040-House_Amendment_H_2_1-Oliverson.html

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Amend SB 1040 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  It is the intent of the legislature that this Act:

(1)  combat the practice of forcibly harvesting organs from living persons for transplant without free, voluntary consent;

(2)  bring awareness to China's state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience and other vulnerable persons, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and House Church Christians; and

(3)  curb illicit transplant tourism and prevent residents of this state from unknowingly involving themselves in forced organ harvesting.