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Senate Bill 1259 |
Senate Author: Huffman |
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Effective: 9-1-19 |
House Sponsor: Klick et al. |
Senate Bill 1259 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure and Penal Code to expand the conduct that constitutes the offense of sexual assault without the consent of the other person to include knowingly using human reproductive material from a donor by a health care services provider in the course of performing an assisted reproduction procedure on another person who has not expressly consented to such use. The bill makes such conduct punishable as a state jail felony and sets out the statute of limitations for such conduct.