Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 285.202
Use of Tax Revenue for Abortions; Exception for Medical Emergency


(a)

In this section, “medical emergency” means:

(1)

a condition exists that, in a physician’s good faith clinical judgment, complicates the medical condition of the pregnant woman and necessitates the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avoid a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function; or

(2)

the fetus has a severe fetal abnormality.

(a-1)

In Subsection (a), a “severe fetal abnormality” means a life threatening physical condition that, in reasonable medical judgment, regardless of the provision of life saving medical treatment, is incompatible with life outside the womb.

(a-2)

In Subsection (a-1), “reasonable medical judgment” means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved.

(b)

Except in the case of a medical emergency, a hospital district created under general or special law that uses tax revenue of the district to finance the performance of an abortion may not receive state funding.

(c)

A physician who performs an abortion in a medical emergency at a hospital or other health care facility owned or operated by a hospital district that receives state funds shall:

(1)

include in the patient’s medical records a statement signed by the physician certifying the nature of the medical emergency; and

(2)

not later than the 30th day after the date the abortion is performed, certify to the Department of State Health Services the specific medical condition that constituted the emergency.

(d)

The statement required under Subsection (c)(1) shall be placed in the patient’s medical records and shall be kept by the hospital or other health care facility where the abortion is performed until:

(1)

the seventh anniversary of the date the abortion is performed; or

(2)

if the pregnant woman is a minor, the later of:

(A)

the seventh anniversary of the date the abortion is performed; or

(B)

the woman’s 21st birthday.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 15.02, eff. September 28, 2011.

Source: Section 285.202 — Use of Tax Revenue for Abortions; Exception for Medical Emergency, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­285.­htm#285.­202 (accessed Mar. 23, 2024).

285.001
Definition
285.002
Applicability of Subchapter
285.003
Authority to Make Revenue Anticipation Agreement
285.004
Terms
285.005
Refunding Prohibited
285.006
Security
285.007
Limitation on Use of Proceeds
285.008
Bonds
285.009
Taxes to Secure Bonds
285.021
Definitions
285.022
Authority to Construct, Improve, Operate, and Lease Parking Station
285.023
Authority to Issue Revenue Bonds
285.024
Form and Execution of Bonds
285.025
Terms
285.026
Approval and Registration of Bonds
285.027
Other Bonds
285.028
Use of Proceeds
285.029
Change for District Services
285.030
Procedures for Station Operation
285.041
Appointment of Tax Assessor and Collector
285.051
Authority of Governing Body
285.052
Petition
285.061
Tax Authorized
285.062
Tax Election Procedures
285.063
Effective Date of Tax or Tax Change
285.064
Use of Tax Revenue
285.071
Definition
285.072
Liability of a Hospital District Management Contractor
285.081
Optional Four-year Terms
285.082
Optional Three-year Terms
285.083
Resignation of Term
285.091
Hospital District Contracts, Collaborations, and Joint Ventures
285.101
Facilities or Services for Elderly or Disabled
285.131
Write-in Voting in Election for Board Members
285.151
Assets Transferred on Dissolution
285.161
Tax Authorized
285.162
Tax Rate
285.163
Tax Election Procedures
285.164
Election in Other Taxing Authority
285.165
Use of Tax
285.166
Effective Date
285.167
County Sales and Use Tax Act Applicable
285.201
Provision of Medical and Hospital Care
285.202
Use of Tax Revenue for Abortions
285.231
Election to Increase Maximum Tax Rate
285.301
Establishment of Nonprofit Corporation
285.302
Compliance by Nonprofit Corporation with Certain Laws
285.901
Disposition of Salvage and Surplus Property

Accessed:
Mar. 23, 2024

§ 285.202’s source at texas​.gov