Tex. Occ. Code § 203.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
FINDINGS.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The legislature finds:
(1) a parent has the responsibility and right to give birth where and with whom the parent chooses;
(2) childbirth is a natural process of the human body and not a disease; and
(3) midwifery has been practiced in this state since the days of the Republic.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.203.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 e77d3b4e528d42b84db8f29e8c7b44bd6461788fc9c5fb989bdce2cad23a539e
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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