By: Campbell  S.B. No. 959
         (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2023; March 3, 2023,
  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  March 22, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 3; March 22, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain prohibited transactions between an
  open-enrollment charter school and an abortion provider or
  affiliate of the provider.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2273.001(4), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
               (4)  "Governmental entity" means this state, a state
  agency in the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of state
  government, [or] a political subdivision of this state, or an
  open-enrollment charter school established under Subchapter D,
  Chapter 12, Education Code.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2273.001(4), Government Code, as amended
  by this Act, applies only to a taxpayer resource transaction
  entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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