88R14176 JG-D
 
  By: Bowers H.B. No. 5087
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion
  complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting
  abortion.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 171.006(a) and (b), Health and Safety
  Code, as added by Chapter 4 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th Legislature,
  1st Called Session, 2017, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In this section, "abortion complication" [or "adverse
  event"] means any harmful event or adverse outcome with respect to a
  patient related to an abortion that is performed [or induced] on the
  patient and that is diagnosed or treated by a health care
  practitioner or at a health care facility and includes:
               (1)  shock;
               (2)  uterine perforation;
               (3)  cervical laceration;
               (4)  hemorrhage;
               (5)  aspiration or allergic response;
               (6)  infection;
               (7)  sepsis;
               (8)  death of the patient;
               (9)  incomplete abortion;
               (10)  damage to the uterus; or
               (11)  an infant born alive after the abortion[;
               [(12)  blood clots resulting in pulmonary embolism or
  deep vein thrombosis;
               [(13)  failure to actually terminate the pregnancy;
               [(14)  pelvic inflammatory disease;
               [(15)  endometritis;
               [(16)  missed ectopic pregnancy;
               [(17)  cardiac arrest;
               [(18)  respiratory arrest;
               [(19)  renal failure;
               [(20)  metabolic disorder;
               [(21)  embolism;
               [(22)  coma;
               [(23)  placenta previa in subsequent pregnancies;
               [(24)  preterm delivery in subsequent pregnancies;
               [(25)  fluid accumulation in the abdomen;
               [(26)  hemolytic reaction resulting from the
  administration of ABO-incompatible blood or blood products;
               [(27)  adverse reactions to anesthesia or other drugs;
  or
               [(28)  any other adverse event as defined by the United
  States Food and Drug Administration's criteria provided by the
  MedWatch Reporting System].
         (b)  The reporting requirements of this section apply only
  to:
               (1)  a physician who:
                     (A)  performs [or induces] at an abortion facility
  an abortion that results in an abortion complication diagnosed or
  treated by that physician; or
                     (B)  diagnoses or treats at an abortion facility
  an abortion complication that is the result of an abortion
  performed [or induced] by another physician at the facility; or
               (2)  a health care facility that is a hospital,
  abortion facility, freestanding emergency medical care facility,
  or health care facility that provides emergency medical care, as
  defined by Section 773.003.
         SECTION 2.  Section 171.061, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subdivision (3) and amending Subdivision (8-a) to
  read as follows:
               (3)  "Final printed label" means the informational
  document approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration
  for an abortion-inducing drug that:
                     (A)  outlines the protocol authorized by that
  agency and agreed to by the drug company applying for authorization
  of the drug by that agency; and
                     (B)  delineates the manner in which a drug is to be
  used according to approval by that agency.
               (8-a)  "Provide" means, as used with regard to
  abortion-inducing drugs, any act of giving, selling, dispensing,
  administering, [transferring possession,] or otherwise providing
  or prescribing an abortion-inducing drug.
         SECTION 3.  Section 171.063, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by amending Subsections (a), (c), and (e) and adding
  Subsection (b) to read as follows:
         (a)  A person may not knowingly provide an abortion-inducing
  drug to a pregnant woman for the purpose of inducing an abortion in
  the pregnant woman or enabling another person to induce an abortion
  in the pregnant woman unless:
               (1)  the person who provides the abortion-inducing drug
  is a physician; and
               (2)  except as otherwise provided by Subsection (b),
  the provision of the abortion-inducing drug satisfies the protocol
  tested and authorized by the United States Food and Drug
  Administration as outlined in the final printed label of the
  abortion-inducing drug [this subchapter].
         (b)  A person may provide the abortion-inducing drug in the
  dosage amount prescribed by the clinical management guidelines
  defined by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  Practice Bulletin as those guidelines existed on January 1, 2013.
         (c)  Before the physician provides an abortion-inducing
  drug, the physician must:
               (1)  examine the pregnant woman [in person]; and
               (2)  [independently verify that a pregnancy exists;
               [(3)]  document, in the woman's medical record, the
  gestational age and intrauterine location of the pregnancy [to
  determine whether an ectopic pregnancy exists;
               [(4)  determine the pregnant woman's blood type, and
  for a woman who is Rh negative, offer to administer Rh
  immunoglobulin (RhoGAM) at the time the abortion-inducing drug is
  administered or used or the abortion is performed or induced to
  prevent Rh incompatibility, complications, or miscarriage in
  future pregnancies;
               [(5)  document whether the pregnant woman received
  treatment for Rh negativity, as diagnosed by the most accurate
  standard of medical care; and
               [(6)  ensure the physician does not provide an
  abortion-inducing drug for a pregnant woman whose pregnancy is more
  than 49 days of gestational age].
         (e)  A physician who provides the abortion-inducing drug, or
  the physician's agent, must schedule a follow-up visit for the
  woman to occur not later than the 14th day after the administration
  [earliest date on which the abortion-inducing drug is administered]
  or use of the abortion-inducing drug [used or the abortion is
  performed or induced].  At the follow-up visit, the physician must:
               (1)  confirm that the woman's pregnancy is completely
  terminated; and
               (2)  assess any continued blood loss.
         SECTION 4.  Section 171.206(b), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  This subchapter may not be construed to:
               (1)  authorize the initiation of a cause of action
  against or the prosecution of a woman on whom an abortion is
  performed or induced or attempted to be performed or induced in
  violation of this subchapter;
               (2)  wholly or partly repeal, either expressly or by
  implication, any other statute that regulates or prohibits
  abortion[, including Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes]; or
               (3)  restrict a political subdivision from regulating
  or prohibiting abortion in a manner that is at least as stringent as
  the laws of this state.
         SECTION 5.  Section 171.207(b), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Subsection (a) may not be construed to:
               (1)  legalize the conduct prohibited by this subchapter
  [or by Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes];
               (2)  limit in any way or affect the availability of a
  remedy established by Section 171.208; or
               (3)  limit the enforceability of any other laws that
  regulate or prohibit abortion.
         SECTION 6.  The following provisions are repealed:
               (1)  Chapter 170A, Health and Safety Code;
               (2)  Section 171.061(2-a), Health and Safety Code;
               (3)  Section 171.063(b-1), Health and Safety Code;
               (4)  Section 171.0631, Health and Safety Code;
               (5)  Section 171.0632, Health and Safety Code;
               (6)  Section 171.065, Health and Safety Code;
               (7)  Section 171.066, Health and Safety Code; and
               (8)  Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes.
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.