model confidence 90%
Repeals Chapter 170A (which banned most abortions after fertilization) and Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes (which banned most abortions), so more legal access to abortion at all stages.
(4) Chapter 170A, Health and Safety Code;
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model confidence 80%
Repeals the heading and civil/criminal provisions of Family Code 151.002 that treated a living child after an abortion or premature birth as a person for penalties, and repeals related personhood-linked abortion bans, so less fetal personhood recognition.
Sec. 151.002. RIGHTS OF A LIVING CHILD AFTER AN ABORTION OR PREMATURE BIRTH[deleted: ; CIVIL PENALTY; CRIMINAL OFFENSE].
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model confidence 90%
Explicitly allows providing assistance for travel outside the state to obtain an abortion and bars civil actions under the private-enforcement statute for such assistance, so more legal access to out-of-state abortion.
Notwithstanding any other law, a person may provide to an individual direct or indirect assistance for traveling outside of this state to obtain an abortion.
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model confidence 90%
Amends the medication-abortion subchapter to allow provision per the FDA final printed label or 2013 ACOG guidelines, removes the in-person exam requirement, removes the 49-day gestational limit, removes several verification and reporting steps, and adds a supremacy clause over conflicting laws, so,
A person may provide the abortion-inducing drug in the dosage amount the clinical management guidelines prescribe in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Practice Bulletin as those guidelines existed on January 1, 2013.
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model confidence 85%
Repeals multiple specific regulatory provisions and chapters on abortion (including Chapter 170A, several 171 sections, and the entire pre-Roe criminal abortion statute), removes certain certification and follow-up requirements, and adds protections against penalties on the pregnant individual, so,
A statute regulating or prohibiting abortion may not be construed to authorize the imposition or incurrence of criminal, civil, or administrative penalties or liability on a pregnant individual on whom an abortion is performed, induced, or attempted.
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model confidence 85%
Repeals the Texas Heartbeat Act's private civil-enforcement mechanism for post-6-week abortions (including its application to travel assistance) and repeals insurance-coverage restrictions in the Insurance Code, so more legal access to and coverage of abortion.
A civil action under Subsection (a)(2) or (3) may not be brought against a person for providing or intending to provide to an individual direct or indirect assistance for traveling outside of this state to obtain an abortion.
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Status: Died (session ended)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily repeals Texas's post-Dobbs abortion bans (including the 6-week heartbeat ban and the near-total ban in Chapter 170A), repeals multiple regulatory and enforcement provisions, liberalizes medication-abortion rules by adopting broader FDA/ACOG standards and removing in-person and gestational restrictions, authorizes out-of-state travel assistance, prohibits penalties on the pregnant person, and repeals insurance limits, all of which expand legal access to abortion; it also adds a local-government ban on travel-prohibition ordinances that indirectly supports abortion travel but,
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-06 | S | Referred to State Affairs |
| 2025-03-06 | S | Read first time |
| 2025-02-21 | S | Filed |
| 2025-02-21 | S | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |