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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB2896Relating to insurance coverage for the disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Requires health insurers to cover disposition (burial/cremation) costs for embryonic and fetal tissue remains at 20 weeks post-fertilization age, treating them as requiring formal interment like a deceased child.
An entity to which this chapter applies must provide a benefit or coverage for up to $7,500 of the cost of disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains with a post-fertilization age of 20 weeks or more.
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Abortionfunding insuranceAI label
=No change to abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Mandates that certain insurance plans and group benefit plans cover up to $7,500 for disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains, using insurance benefits for this purpose.
must provide a benefit or coverage for up to $7,500 of the cost of disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains with a post-fertilization age of 20 weeks or more.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill mandates insurance coverage specifically for disposition of embryonic/fetal tissue remains at 20+ weeks post-fertilization (including interment, cremation), which invokes fetal personhood concepts by treating such remains as requiring formal burial-like handling; this is classified as abortion/personhood-ivf RESTRICTS per guidelines. It also requires insurance to pay for these costs, but as a funding mandate without changing abortion access itself it is neutral on abortion/funding-insurance.
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