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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
SB256Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.
Direction
Abortionbans gestational limitsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Expands the exceptions to the state's abortion prohibition to include cases where the abortion is medically indicated, necessary to preserve the patient's physical or mental health or fertility, or requested due to lethal or life-limiting fetal anomalies, and repeals the pre-Roe total abortion ban (
It is an exception to the application of Subsection (a) that the abortion is: (A) medically indicated; (B) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's life; (C) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's physical or mental health, including preservation of the patient's fertility; (D) requested because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or (E) requested because of a life-limiting diagnosis that indicates the existence of the fetus outside the womb is incompatible with life without extraordinary medical interventions
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AbortionexceptionsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Broadens the medical exceptions to the abortion ban and adds language that each permitted abortion must be considered independently by the treating physician and patient without override by a medical review process.
in the physician's best medical judgment, the abortion is: (A) medically indicated; (B) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's life; (C) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's physical or mental health, including preservation of the patient's fertility; (D) requested because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or (E) requested because of a life-limiting diagnosis that indicates the existence of the fetus outside the womb is incompatible with life without extraordinary medical interventions
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Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Amends the statutory definition of 'pregnant' by striking language that defined it in terms of 'a living unborn child' developing 'from fertilization until birth,' which narrows the personhood framing used in the abortion prohibition chapter.
"Pregnant" means the human reproductive condition of having an embryo or fetus develop within the human body during the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn child's development from fertilization until birth.
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AbortionotherAI label
↔Mixed abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Repeals the pre-Roe total abortion ban (Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes) and related provisions while preserving other regulatory statutes and local authority to regulate or prohibit abortion at least as stringently as state law.
The following provisions are repealed: (1) Sections 170A.001(2) and 170A.002(c), Health and Safety Code; and (2) Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-02-03: Referred to State Affairs
Filed
2024-11-12
Committee
State Affairs
Sponsor
Carol Alvarado D, Cesar Blanco D, Molly Cook D, Sarah Eckhardt D, Roland Gutierrez D, Nathan Johnson D, Jose Menendez D, Borris Miles D
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands abortion access by broadening exceptions to the current prohibition (including health, mental health, fertility, and fetal anomaly grounds), repeals the total pre-Roe ban, narrows personhood-related definitional language, and adds patient-physician autonomy language; it is mixed overall because it also preserves other abortion regulations and local authority to enact equally or more restrictive rules.
Related bills
HB575Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.↓Restricts abortion access↓Restricts abortion access Filed
HB948Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating abortion and the construction of abortion statutes.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed
HB987Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed
HJR24Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Filed