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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB5277Relating to the duties of the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee and the collection, maintenance, and disclosure of maternal health records regarding voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Removes 'voluntary' from the exception for termination-of-pregnancy records, so the Maternal Mortality Review Committee can now collect, maintain, and disclose records of voluntary abortions (in addition to therapeutic ones), increasing scrutiny and data on abortions.
This chapter does not apply to disclosure of records pertaining to [deleted: voluntary or] therapeutic termination of pregnancy, and those records may not be collected, maintained, or disclosed under this chapter.
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AbortionotherAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Expands the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee's duties to explicitly study and review cases, trends, rates, and disparities in pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidity that are related to voluntary termination of pregnancy.
study and review: (A) cases of pregnancy-related deaths, including deaths related to voluntary termination of pregnancy; (B) trends, rates, or disparities in pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidity, including deaths and severe maternal morbidity related to voluntary termination of pregnancy;
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-04-07: Referred to Public Health
Filed
2025-03-14
Committee
Public Health
Sponsor
Katrina Pierson R, David Cook R + 11 cosponsors (11 R)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands the review committee's study duties to include voluntary terminations of pregnancy and removes the prior exemption that prevented collection/maintenance/disclosure of voluntary termination records (while keeping the exemption for therapeutic ones), resulting in more data collection and review of abortions.
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