TO: | Honorable David Swinford, Chair, House Committee on State Affairs |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB145 by Farrar (Relating to an abortion when a fetal abnormality is detected.), As Introduced |
The bill would allow a person to obtain voluntary and informed consent to perform an abortion without complying with the requirements of Subchapter B of Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, if a severe and irreversible abnormality is detected in the fetus.
The Department of State Health Services and the Office of the Attorney General assume that existing staff could meet the requirements of this bill. The bill would take effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house. If the bill does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, the bill takes effect September 1, 2005.
Source Agencies: | 302 Office of the Attorney General, 529 Health and Human Services Commission, 537 Department of State Health Services
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LBB Staff: | JOB, SR, CL, LW
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