84R4172 AJZ-D
 
  By: Farrar H.B. No. 707
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to providing information and other services relating to
  emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 323, Health and Safety Code, is amended
  by adding Sections 323.0051 and 323.0052 to read as follows:
         Sec. 323.0051.  EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE INFORMATION. (a)
  The department shall develop a standard information form for sexual
  assault survivors that includes information regarding emergency
  contraception.
         (b)  Emergency contraception information contained in the
  form must be medically and factually accurate and unbiased. The
  department may use appropriate medical organizations and
  associations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians and
  Gynecologists, as resources in developing the form.
         (c)  The information form shall be published in:
               (1)  an easily comprehensible form; and
               (2)  a typeface large enough to be clearly legible.
         (d)  The department shall annually review the information
  form to determine if changes to the contents of the form are
  necessary.
         (e)  A health care facility shall use the standard form
  developed under this section.
         Sec. 323.0052.  EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY
  CONTRACEPTION. In addition to the other services and information
  required under this chapter, after a sexual assault survivor
  arrives at a health care facility for emergency care following an
  alleged sexual assault, the facility shall:
               (1)  provide the sexual assault survivor with the
  information form required under Section 323.0051;
               (2)  orally communicate to the sexual assault survivor
  the information regarding emergency contraception contained in the
  information form provided under Subdivision (1);
               (3)  if indicated by the history of contact, orally
  inform the sexual assault survivor that the survivor may request
  and be provided with emergency contraception at the facility; and
               (4)  if not medically contraindicated and if the
  survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test and that pregnancy
  test produces a negative result, provide the sexual assault
  survivor with emergency contraception immediately on request of the
  survivor.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.