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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB1986Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.
Direction
Abortionmedication abortionAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Allows medication abortion using either the FDA final printed label protocol or the 2013 ACOG guidelines (which permitted higher doses and later use than current FDA label), and repeals multiple statutes that had imposed stricter limits on medication abortion, so more legal access to medication-abut
A person may provide the abortion-inducing drug in the dosage amount prescribed by the clinical management guidelines defined by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Practice Bulletin as those guidelines existed on January 1, 2013.
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Abortionbans gestational limitsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Repeals Chapter 170A (Texas's 2021 total abortion ban after detection of embryonic cardiac activity, with limited exceptions) and other statutes that prohibited most abortions, so more legal access to abortion at all gestational stages.
The following provisions are repealed: (1) Chapter 170A, Health and Safety Code;
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Abortionprovider clinic regulationAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Amends reporting rules for abortion complications (including adding 'an infant born alive after the abortion' to the list) and imposes new requirements for physicians providing medication abortion (in-person exam, documentation of gestational age and location, mandatory follow-up visit within 14 d
In this section, "abortion complication" means any harmful event or adverse outcome with respect to a patient related to an abortion that is performed on the patient and that is diagnosed or treated by a health care practitioner or at a health care facility and includes: ... (11) an infant born alive after the abortion
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-03-14: Referred to Public Health
Filed
2025-01-22
Committee
Public Health
Sponsor
Rhetta Bowers D, Donna Howard D + 3 cosponsors (3 D)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands abortion access by repealing Texas's near-total ban (Ch. 170A) and several statutes that restricted medication abortion, while also expanding the allowable protocols for mifepristone/misoprostol to include the less-restrictive 2013 ACOG guidelines; simultaneously it adds regulatory requirements on complication reporting, physician exams, and mandatory follow-up visits for medication abortion.
Related bills
HB987Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed
HB575Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.↓Restricts abortion access↓Restricts abortion access Filed
HB948Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating abortion and the construction of abortion statutes.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed
HJR24Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed