Amend HB 2 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 5, between lines 25 and 26, insert the following:
(d) The Department of Family and Protective Services may waive the prohibitions and requirements under Section 171.043, 171.044, and 171.045(b) in accordance with Section 262.310, Family Code.
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill:
SECTION ____. (a) Subchapter D, Chapter 262, Family Code, is amended by adding Section 262.310 to read as follows:
Sec. 262.310. WAIVER FOR CERTAIN PREGNANT WOMEN. Unless the Department of Family and Protective Services provides a waiver authorizing a pregnant woman to obtain an abortion after the date the post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 20 weeks, the department shall allow a woman to voluntarily deliver a child who appears to be not more than one year old to a designated emergency infant care provider.
SECTION ____. Section 262.301(1), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Designated emergency infant care provider" means:
(A) an emergency medical services provider;
(B) a police station;
(C) a fire station;
(D) a hospital; or
(E)[(C)] a child-placing agency licensed by the Department of Family and Protective [and Regulatory] Services under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, that:
(i) agrees to act as a designated emergency infant care provider under this subchapter; and
(ii) has on staff a person who is licensed as a registered nurse under Chapter 301, Occupations Code, or who provides emergency medical services under Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code, and who will examine and provide emergency medical services to a child taken into possession by the agency under this subchapter.
SECTION ____. Section 262.302(a), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A designated emergency infant care provider shall, without a court order, take possession of a child who appears to be one year [60 days] old or younger if the child is voluntarily delivered to the provider by the child's parent and the parent did not express an intent to return for the child.
(3) Renumber SECTIONS of the bill and cross-references to those SECTIONS accordingly.