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TX SB2880
Bill
Status
4/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Bryan Hughes
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Crimes
Last Action
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
5/23/2025