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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session

HB2651 Relating to an exemption from abortion restrictions for unemancipated minors and the repeal of provisions regarding notice and consent to those abortions.

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Abortion exceptionsAI label

Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

Creates a broad exemption allowing unemancipated minors to obtain otherwise-prohibited abortions by their own consent without parental or judicial involvement, and exempts them from medication-abortion restrictions, so more legal access to abortion for minors.

Notwithstanding any other law, including Chapter 32, Family Code, a physician may perform or induce an abortion otherwise prohibited under state law on an unemancipated minor who consents to the abortion without obtaining parental consent or judicial approval to perform or induce the abortion.

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Abortion bans gestational limitsAI label

Expands abortion access model confidence 80%

Exempts abortions for unemancipated minors from otherwise-applicable state-law prohibitions (including gestational limits in Chapter 171), so more legal access to abortion for minors.

a physician may perform or induce an abortion otherwise prohibited under state law on an unemancipated minor who consents to the abortion without obtaining parental consent or judicial approval to perform or induce the abortion.

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Abortion medication abortionAI label

Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

States that the restriction on provision of an abortion-inducing drug under Section 171.063(c)(6) does not apply to unemancipated minors if the physician judges it effective and low-risk, so more legal access to medication abortion for minors.

The restriction on the provision of an abortion-inducing drug under Section 171.063(c)(6) does not apply to the provision of the drug to an unemancipated minor if, based on the physician's reasonable medical judgment and the gestational age of the pregnancy, the drug will be effective and does not pose a risk to the minor.

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Abortion provider clinic regulationAI label

Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

Repeals Chapter 33, Family Code (parental notice and consent for minor abortions), removes references to it from informed-consent, sonogram, inspection, and physician-misconduct provisions, and eliminates related prohibitions on performing abortions on minors without consent or court order, so fewer

The following provisions are repealed: (1) Chapter 33, Family Code;

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2025-03-18: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Filed
2025-02-11
Committee
Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Sponsor
Mihaela Plesa D
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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a new chapter exempting unemancipated minors from all otherwise-applicable abortion restrictions (including gestational limits and medication rules) if the minor consents, grants physicians immunity from liability, and comprehensively repeals Texas's parental-notification-and-consent law (Chapter 33, Family Code) along with all cross-references to it in abortion statutes. These changes expand legal access to abortion for minors and remove provider regulations specific to minors; no provisions restrict abortion access or address other listed topics.

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History (3 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-03-18HReferred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
2025-03-18HRead first time
2025-02-11HFiled