By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 512
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to familial relationships in cases of egg or embryo
    1-2  donation.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 12, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Sections 12.03A and 12.03B to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 12.03A.  OOCYTE DONATION.  (a)  If a husband consents to
    1-7  provide sperm to fertilize a donor oocyte by in vitro fertilization
    1-8  or other assisted reproductive techniques and the wife consents to
    1-9  have a donor oocyte that has been fertilized with her husband's
   1-10  sperm, pursuant to his consent, placed in her uterus, any resulting
   1-11  child is the legitimate child of both of them.  The consent of each
   1-12  must be in writing.
   1-13        (b)  If a donor oocyte that has been fertilized with her
   1-14  husband's sperm implants in a wife's uterus, any resulting child is
   1-15  not the child of the donor of the oocyte.
   1-16        Sec. 12.03B.  EMBRYO DONATION.  (a)  If, with the consent of
   1-17  the husband and the wife, a donated preimplantation embryo implants
   1-18  in the uterus of the wife, any resulting child is the legitimate
   1-19  child of both of them.  The consent must be in writing.
   1-20        (b)  If, with the consent of the husband and the wife, a
   1-21  donated preimplantation embryo implants in the uterus of the wife,
   1-22  any resulting child is not the child of the donor or donors of the
   1-23  preimplantation embryo.
    2-1        (c)  Subsection (a) of this section and Section 12.03(b) of
    2-2  this code apply whether the donated preimplantation embryo is the
    2-3  result of separate egg and sperm donations or the result of
    2-4  donation of an embryo created for the purpose of assisting the
    2-5  reproduction of the donating couple.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.