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TX SB2880

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Bryan Hughes

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits manufacturing, distributing, mailing, prescribing, or providing abortion-inducing drugs in Texas, with exceptions for medical emergencies, First Amendment-protected speech, and conduct by pregnant women seeking their own abortions

  • Creates private civil actions allowing parents of an unborn child to sue for wrongful death or personal injury from abortion-inducing drugs, with strict, absolute, and joint and several liability for distributors and manufacturers

  • Establishes qui tam enforcement allowing private citizens to sue violators for minimum $100,000 statutory damages per violation, plus injunctive relief and attorney's fees, with a 6-year statute of limitations

  • Imposes fee-shifting requiring those who challenge Texas abortion laws in court to pay the prevailing party's costs and attorney's fees if the challenge is dismissed or ruled against

  • Bars Texas courts from issuing declaratory or injunctive relief invalidating the law's provisions, grants sovereign/governmental/official immunity to state actors defending the law, and declares any contrary court orders void and unenforceable

Legislative Description

Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; authorizing a private civil right of action.

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Last Action

Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

5/23/2025

Committee Referrals

State Affairs5/2/2025
State Affairs3/19/2025

Full Bill Text

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