Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
APPLICABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter does not apply to and a civil action under this chapter may not be brought against:
(1) a hospital;
(2) a health care facility licensed, owned, maintained, or operated by this state;
(3) a health care provider, other than a provider against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);
(4) a physician, other than a physician against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);
(5) a physician group;
(6) an Internet service provider or the provider's affiliates or subsidiaries;
(7) an Internet search engine;
(8) a cloud service provider solely providing access or connection to or from an Internet website or other information or content on the Internet or on a facility, system, or network that is not under the provider's control, including transmission, downloading, intermediate storage, access software, or other services; or
(9) a person who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, provides, or possesses abortion-inducing drugs in this state solely for one or more of the following purposes:
(A) treating a medical emergency;
(B) removing an ectopic pregnancy;
(C) removing a dead, unborn child whose death was caused by spontaneous abortion; or
(D) a purpose that does not include performing, inducing, attempting, or assisting an abortion, other than an abortion performed in response to a medical emergency.
(b) This chapter may not be construed to require the actual performance, inducement, or attempted performance of an abortion in order for a person to bring a civil action authorized by this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 7), Sec. 2, eff. December 4, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.171A.htm
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- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.051PROHIBITIONS RELATED TO ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS.Printed as Section 171A.002 | Section 171A.002(a)(9)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.101QUI TAM ACTION AUTHORIZED.Printed as Section 171A.002(a) | Section 171A.002(a)(9)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.102DEFENSES.Printed as Section 171A.002(a)(9)
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