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TX SB2727
Bill
Status
3/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Molly Cook
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AI Summary
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Creates a new exception to Texas abortion prohibitions when two physicians (the treating physician and another OB-GYN specialist) determine the abortion is necessary due to a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis
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Requires a multidisciplinary ethics committee appointed by the Texas Medical Board to review physician determinations for abortions performed under the lethal fetal anomaly exception when the fetus is older than 24 weeks
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Directs the executive commissioner to establish minimum standards for supportive palliative care provided to infants born with lethal fetal anomalies or diagnoses
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Repeals Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71 of the Revised Statutes (a pre-Roe abortion law that was reactivated after Dobbs)
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Takes effect September 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters, including infant supportive palliative care and exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.
Health
Last Action
Referred to State Affairs
4/3/2025