By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 181
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the time at which life begins.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  MOMENT THAT LIFE BEGINS.  The life of an
 1-5     individual human organism begins at the moment of fertilization. An
 1-6     unborn human organism is alive and is entitled to the rights,
 1-7     protections, and privileges accorded to any other person in this
 1-8     state.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  POWER TO ENACT.  This Act is enacted pursuant to
1-10     the power reserved to this state under the Tenth Amendment to the
1-11     United States Constitution.
1-12           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-13     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.