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Amend CSSB 1647 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 2.08 of the bill, strike added Section 171.012(g), Health and Safety Code (page 6, lines 56-67), and substitute the following:
(g) If the pregnant woman's preborn child has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disability, the physician who is to perform the abortion shall, at least 24 hours before the abortion or at least two hours before the abortion if the pregnant woman waives this requirement by certifying that she currently lives 100 miles or more from the nearest abortion provider that is a facility licensed under Chapter 245 or a facility in which more than 50 abortions are performed in any 12-month period:
(1) orally and in person, inform the pregnant woman of the availability of perinatal palliative care, as that term is defined by Section 161.702; and
(2) provide the pregnant woman with a written copy of:
(A) the perinatal palliative care informational materials and list of the perinatal palliative care providers and programs described by Section 161.703; and
(B) the perinatal palliative care certification form described by Section 161.704.
(2) In SECTION 5.06(c) of the bill, in the effective date language (page 21, between lines 26 and 27), immediately after the colon, insert the following and renumber subsequent subdivisions accordingly:
(1) to the extent permitted, on the 30th day after:
(A) the issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion;
(B) the issuance of any other United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision that recognizes, wholly or partly, the authority of the states to prohibit abortion; or
(C) adoption of an amendment to the United States Constitution that, wholly or partly, restores to the states the authority to prohibit abortion;