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Amend CSSB 8 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill:
SECTION ____. Subchapter A, Chapter 171, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 171.006 to read as follows:
Sec. 171.006. PROHIBITED ABORTIONS; OFFENSE. (a) A physician may not perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion if the physician's sole purpose for performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce the abortion is because of a fetal abnormality, including a severe fetal abnormality, and the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 20 or more weeks.
(b) A physician who violates Subsection (a) commits an offense. An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
SECTION ____. Section 171.046(c), Health and Safety Code, is repealed.
(2) On page 16, line 18, strike "Chapter 48, Penal Code, as amended by this Act, applies" and substitute "The changes in law made by this Act apply".
(3) Renumber the SECTIONS of the bill as appropriate.