Bill Text: TX HB247 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of information and other services relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-19 - Referred to Public Health [HB247 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB247-Introduced.html
| 86R1863 JG-D | ||
| By: Farrar | H.B. No. 247 | |
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| relating to the provision of 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 323.0052 and 323.0053 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 323.0052. EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION 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 | ||
| information 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 department shall ensure the emergency contraception | ||
| information is published in: | ||
| (1) an easily comprehensible form; and | ||
| (2) a large, clearly legible typeface. | ||
| (d) The department shall annually review the information | ||
| form to determine whether content changes are necessary. | ||
| (e) A health care facility shall use the information form | ||
| developed under this section. | ||
| Sec. 323.0053. EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY | ||
| CONTRACEPTION. (a) 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 survivor with the information form | ||
| required under Section 323.0052; | ||
| (2) orally communicate to the survivor the information | ||
| regarding emergency contraception contained in the form provided | ||
| under Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) if indicated by the history of contact, orally | ||
| inform the survivor that the survivor may request and receive | ||
| emergency contraception at the facility; and | ||
| (4) if not medically contraindicated and if the | ||
| survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test that produces a | ||
| negative result, dispense emergency contraception to the survivor | ||
| immediately on the survivor's request. | ||
| (b) Subsections (a)(3) and (4) do not apply to a health care | ||
| facility that does not dispense emergency contraception. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
