model confidence 80%
Adds capacity for minors to consent to contraception-related examination or medical treatment (other than abortion), expanding access to contraception services for minors without parental consent.
(8) consents to a contraception-related examination or medical treatment, other than abortion.
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No change to abortion access model confidence 90%
The bill defines 'contraception' as reversible methods approved by the FDA and explicitly excludes abortion from the new consent provision, but does not define an unborn child, grant legal rights to the unborn, or address fetal personhood or IVF.
In this section, "contraception" means any reversible method of preventing pregnancy that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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Status: Died (session ended)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Texas Family Code to allow minors to consent to contraception-related care (other than abortion), which expands access to contraception. It carves out abortion explicitly and defines contraception narrowly as reversible FDA-approved methods, but contains no provisions on abortion bans, gestational limits, funding, personhood, or IVF that would affect the abortion axis.
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-17 | H | Referred to Public Health |
| 2025-03-17 | H | Read first time |
| 2025-02-07 | H | Filed |