S.B. No. 512 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) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section apply whether 2-2 the donated preimplantation embryo is the result of separate egg 2-3 and sperm donations or the result of donation of an embryo created 2-4 for the purpose of assisting the reproduction of the donating 2-5 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.