86R1863 JG-D
 
  By: Farrar H.B. No. 247
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the provision of 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 323.0052 and 323.0053 to read as follows:
         Sec. 323.0052.  EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION 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
  information 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 department shall ensure the emergency contraception
  information is published in:
               (1)  an easily comprehensible form; and
               (2)  a large, clearly legible typeface.
         (d)  The department shall annually review the information
  form to determine whether content changes are necessary.
         (e)  A health care facility shall use the information form
  developed under this section.
         Sec. 323.0053.  EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY
  CONTRACEPTION. (a) 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 survivor with the information form
  required under Section 323.0052;
               (2)  orally communicate to the survivor the information
  regarding emergency contraception contained in the form provided
  under Subdivision (1);
               (3)  if indicated by the history of contact, orally
  inform the survivor that the survivor may request and receive
  emergency contraception at the facility; and
               (4)  if not medically contraindicated and if the
  survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test that produces a
  negative result, dispense emergency contraception to the survivor
  immediately on the survivor's request.
         (b)  Subsections (a)(3) and (4) do not apply to a health care
  facility that does not dispense emergency contraception.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.