By Naishtat H.B. No. 1443 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to familial relationships in cases of egg or embryo 1-3 donation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Title 2, Chapter 12, Family Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Sections 12.03A and 12.03B to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 12.03A. OOCYTE DONATION. (a) If a husband consents to 1-8 provide sperm to fertilize a donor oocyte by in vitro fertilization 1-9 or other assisted reproductive techniques and the wife consents to 1-10 have a donor oocyte that has been fertilized with her husband's 1-11 sperm, pursuant to his consent, placed in her uterus, any resulting 1-12 child is the legitimate child of both of them. The consent of each 1-13 must be in writing and must be acknowledged. 1-14 (b) If a donor oocyte that has been fertilized with her 1-15 husband's sperm implants in a wife's uterus, any resulting child is 1-16 not the child of the donor of the oocyte. 1-17 Sec. 12.03B. EMBRYO DONATION. (a) If, with the consent of 1-18 the husband and the wife, a donated preimplantation embryo implants 1-19 in the uterus of the wife, any resulting child is the legitimate 1-20 child of both of them. The consent must be in writing and must be 1-21 acknowledged. 1-22 (b) If, with the consent of the husband and the wife, a 1-23 donated preimplantation embryo implants in the uterus of the wife, 2-1 any resulting child is not the child of the donor or donors of the 2-2 preimplantation embryo. 2-3 (c) Subsection (a) of this section and Section 12.03(b) of 2-4 this code apply whether the donated preimplantation embryo is the 2-5 result of separate egg and sperm donations or the result of 2-6 donation of an embryo created for the purpose of assisting the 2-7 reproduction of the donating couple. 2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.