Amend HB 12 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION____. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, is amended by adding Section 32.0245 to read as follows:
Sec. 32.0245. LEGISLATIVE POLICY AND PURPOSE. In implementing Section 32.024 (1-1), the commission shall carry out the state's profound respect for the lives of mothers and the unborn by providing for extended Medicaid health care coverage for mothers whose pregnancies end in the delivery of the child or end in natural loss of the child. This does not include pregnancies that end through elective abortion.