By King of Parker                                     H.B. No. 2956
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to licensing requirements applicable to persons who
 1-3     advertise certain services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 245, Health and Safety Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 245.0106 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 245.0106.  YELLOW PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS. Notwithstanding
 1-8     Section 245.004 or any other law, a facility may not advertise the
 1-9     availability of abortion services at the facility in the yellow
1-10     pages of a telephone directory unless the facility is licensed
1-11     under this chapter.
1-12           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-13     applies only to a facility that advertises services described by
1-14     Section 245.0106, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, in
1-15     an advertisement published on or after that date.  A facility that
1-16     advertises the availability of those services in an advertisement
1-17     published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-18     law as it existed immediately before that effective date, and that
1-19     law is continued in effect for that purpose.