relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion
complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting
abortion.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 171.006(a) and (b), Health and Safety
Code, as added by Chapter 4 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th Legislature,
1st Called Session, 2017, are amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section, "abortion complication" [or "adverse
event"] means any harmful event or adverse outcome with respect to a
patient related to an abortion that is performed [or induced] on the
patient and that is diagnosed or treated by a health care
practitioner or at a health care facility and includes:
(1) shock;
(2) uterine perforation;
(3) cervical laceration;
(4) hemorrhage;
(5) aspiration or allergic response;
(6) infection;
(7) sepsis;
(8) death of the patient;
(9) incomplete abortion;
(10) damage to the uterus; or
(11) an infant born alive after the abortion[;
[(12)blood clots resulting in pulmonary embolism or
deep vein thrombosis;
[(13) failure to actually terminate the pregnancy;
[(14) pelvic inflammatory disease;
[(15) endometritis;
[(16) missed ectopic pregnancy;
[(17) cardiac arrest;
[(18) respiratory arrest;
[(19) renal failure;
[(20) metabolic disorder;
[(21) embolism;
[(22) coma;
[(23) placenta previa in subsequent pregnancies;
[(24) preterm delivery in subsequent pregnancies;
[(25) fluid accumulation in the abdomen;
[(26)hemolytic reaction resulting from the
administration of ABO-incompatible blood or blood products;
[(27)adverse reactions to anesthesia or other drugs;
or
[(28)any other adverse event as defined by the United
States Food and Drug Administration's criteria provided by the
MedWatch Reporting System].
(b) The reporting requirements of this section apply only
to:
(1) a physician who:
(A) performs [or induces] at an abortion facility
an abortion that results in an abortion complication diagnosed or
treated by that physician; or
(B) diagnoses or treats at an abortion facility
an abortion complication that is the result of an abortion
performed [or induced] by another physician at the facility; or
(2) a health care facility that is a hospital,
abortion facility, freestanding emergency medical care facility,
or health care facility that provides emergency medical care, as
defined by Section 773.003.
SECTION 2. Section 171.061, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subdivision (3) and amending Subdivision (8-a) to
read as follows:
(3)"Final prinStatutes affected: Introduced: Health and Safety Code 171.061, Health and Safety Code 171.063, Health and Safety Code 171.206, Health and Safety Code 171.207 (Health and Safety Code 171)