Bill Text: TX HB61 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 61

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity for procurement of an abortion or an abortion provider's services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 42-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HB61 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB61-Introduced.html

	88R1023 SRA-F

	By: Noble	H.B. No. 61



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to prohibited logistical support by a governmental entity
	for procurement of an abortion or an abortion provider's services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 2273, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Section 2273.0031 to read as follows:
	Sec. 2273.0031. LOGISTICAL SUPPORT PROHIBITED. (a) Except
	as provided by Subsection (b), a governmental entity may not enter
	into a taxpayer resource transaction or appropriate or spend money
	to provide to any person logistical support for the express purpose
	of assisting a woman with procuring an abortion or an abortion
	provider's services. Logistical support includes providing money
	for:
	(1) child care;
	(2) travel or any form of transportation to or from an
	abortion provider;
	(3) lodging;
	(4) food or food preparation;
	(5) counseling that encourages a woman to have an
	abortion; and
	(6) any other service that facilitates the provision
	of an abortion.
	(b) This section does not apply to a taxpayer resource
	transaction entered into or money appropriated or spent by a
	governmental entity that is subject to a federal law in conflict
	with Subsection (a) as the executive commissioner of the Health and
	Human Services Commission determines and the attorney general
	confirms in writing.
	SECTION 2. Section 2273.004(a), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of
	the state to enjoin a violation of Section 2273.003 or 2273.0031
	[~~2272.003~~]. The attorney general may recover reasonable attorney's
	fees and costs incurred in bringing an action under this
	subsection.
	SECTION 3. It is the intent of the legislature that every
	provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word
	in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to
	each person or entity, is severable from each other. If any
	application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of
	persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any
	reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other
	persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.