Abortion in Texas

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• TXHB1057 2027-2028By Donna Howard (D)
  Relating to the award of public money to or governmental transactions with providers of women's health services and family planning services, including abortion providers and their affiliates; making conforming changes.

  AI summary Repeals Chapter 2273 of the Government Code (which banned state contracts with abortion providers and affiliates) and removes priority restrictions favoring non-abortion providers for family planning funds, so more public money can go to abortion providers.

  ↑Expands abortion access ✓ Reviewedfunding insurance
  Stage: Filed Nov 10: Filed
• TXSB243 2027-2028By Molly Cook (D) +3
  Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters, including infant supportive palliative care and exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the abortion ban for lethal fetal anomalies diagnosed by two physicians, and exempts such abortions from heartbeat-act procedures, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits
  ↔Mixed abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB231 2027-2028By Carol Alvarado (D) +3
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a police report, forensic evidence, or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXSB152 2027-2028By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to the regulation of limited service pregnancy resource centers; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Imposes mandatory disclosures, disclaimers, and signage requirements on limited service pregnancy resource centers that do not provide abortions or birth control, with criminal and civil penalties for violations, so more regulation of anti-abortion pregnancy centers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHJR68 2027-2028By Samantha Lopez-Resendez (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from restricting an individual's access to abortion and related health care.

  AI summary Proposes a constitutional amendment that would bar the legislature from restricting access to abortion or related health care chosen in consultation with a physician, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHJR24 2027-2028By John Bucy (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Establishes a constitutional right to abortion on or before 24 weeks post-fertilization and carves out exceptions after that point, so more legal access to abortion than under current Texas law which bans nearly all abortions after roughly six weeks.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, personhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessballot constitutional
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB996 2027-2028By Sheryl Cole (D)
  Relating to the coverage and provision of abortion, contraception, and sterilization under Medicaid and certain health benefit plans.

  AI summary Requires Medicaid to cover abortion services even without federal matching funds and bars cost-sharing, utilization review, prior authorization or other delays on abortion coverage under Medicaid and private health plans, so more insurance coverage of abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB987 2027-2028By Rhetta Bowers (D)
  Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Repeals Chapter 170A (Texas Heartbeat Act banning most abortions after detection of embryonic cardiac activity) and other statutes that prohibit or limit abortions, so more legal access to abortion at later gestations.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion
  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB948 2027-2028By Samantha Lopez-Resendez (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating abortion and the construction of abortion statutes.

  AI summary Repeals Chapter 170A (Texas Heartbeat Act) and Subchapter H of Chapter 171 (which includes the 6-week heartbeat ban), so removes the gestational limit and restores broader legal access to abortion before viability.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, provider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB947 2027-2028By Samantha Lopez-Resendez (D)
  Relating to a suit for dissolution of a marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.

  AI summary Allows a divorce decree to be granted while a party is pregnant and requires or allows a joined SAPCR for the unborn child, enabling earlier establishment of custody, parenting time and related orders for the child upon birth.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB944 2027-2028By Chris Spencer (R)
  Relating to health care and law enforcement training regarding pregnancy fraud; creating a criminal offense for presenting false, fraudulent, or fictitious medical records regarding pregnancy.

  AI summary Mandates evidence-based training programs (at least two hours) for health care practitioners and law enforcement officers on warning signs of pregnancy fraud, recognizing false medical records regarding pregnancy, de-escalation, and resources for victims, plus continuing education credit and a state

  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB911 2027-2028By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to allowing pregnant individuals to vote by mail if they will be in the second or third trimester on election day.

  AI summary Expands the categories of voters eligible for early voting by mail to include those in the second or third trimester of pregnancy on election day, in addition to those expecting to give birth within four weeks before or after election day.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB866 2027-2028By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to the continuation of Medicaid eligibility of a woman following a pregnancy.

  AI summary Extends postpartum Medicaid coverage from 12 months to 24 months after pregnancy, increasing public funding for health services including potential abortion-related care in the extended period.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB575 2027-2028By Brent Money (R)
  Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.

  AI summary Defines 'individual' to include an unborn child from fertilization until birth and applies homicide and assault laws equally to unborn victims, establishing legal personhood from fertilization.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB511 2027-2028By Jared Patterson (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to restricting who may be a party to a gestational agreement based on citizenship status or relation to a foreign terrorist organization.

  AI summary Adds citizenship and foreign-adversary/terrorist restrictions on who may be a party to a gestational (surrogacy) agreement, so fewer people may use gestational surrogacy to have children.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB473 2027-2028By Armando Walle (D)
  Relating to the continuation of Medicaid eligibility of a woman following a pregnancy.

  AI summary Extends postpartum Medicaid coverage from 12 months to at least 24 months after pregnancy, increasing public funding for health services for women after pregnancy.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB438 2027-2028By Maria Flores (D)
  Relating to wrongful death actions arising from the death of an unborn child resulting from an abortion.

  AI summary Expands the scope of wrongful death claims to include deaths of unborn children from abortions (removing prior exemption for lawful abortions), allowing civil suits against providers for such deaths.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, exceptions
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB348 2027-2028By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Mandates specific fetal development instruction, including videos depicting unborn children, in the public school health curriculum for grades 6-8.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB232 2027-2028By Jessica Gonzalez (D)
  Relating to conditions applicable to health benefit plan coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures.

  AI summary Removes the requirement that IVF fertilization use only the patient's spouse's sperm and shortens the required infertility history from five to three years, so more people qualify for mandated insurance coverage of IVF procedures.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: Filed Nov 9: Filed
• TXHB7 2025By Jeff Leach (R) +5 · 67 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibitions on the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the jurisdiction of and effect of certain judgments by courts within and outside this state with respect to the manufacture and provision of those drugs, and to protections from certain counteractions und

  AI summary Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to/from Texas, with limited exceptions, so less legal access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, travel interstate shield, provider clinic regulation, exceptions
  Stage: Law Sep 17, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 4, 2025
• TXHJR35 2025By John Bucy (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Establishes a constitutional right to abortion up to 24 weeks post-fertilization and beyond for life/health or by general-law exception, so more legal access to abortion before and in some cases after that limit.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, ballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 21, 2025: Filed
• TXHB218 2025By Ellen Troxclair (R)
  Relating to prohibition of transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits transporting or funding transport of an unemancipated minor out of Texas for an abortion without parental consent, so less ability to obtain out-of-state abortions.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, personhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 20, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB216 2025By Ellen Troxclair (R)
  Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

  AI summary Requires in-person physical exam by a Texas physician before providing an abortion-inducing drug, so less medication abortion access via telemedicine or out-of-state providers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 20, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB144 2025By Brent Money (R) +1
  Relating to the protection of an unborn child’s rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.

  AI summary Defines 'individual' to include an unborn child from fertilization, applies homicide and assault laws equally to unborn victims, and repeals exceptions for abortion, so less legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, exceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 20, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB7 2025By Bryan Hughes (R) +11 · 3 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion l

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to/from the state (with narrow exceptions), so less legal access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, exceptions, personhood ivf, travel interstate shield, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXSB43 2025By Carol Alvarado (D) +7
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a police report, forensic evidence, or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Filed
• TXSB42 2025By Carol Alvarado (D) +8
  Relating to exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Expands the exceptions to Texas's abortion prohibitions to include lethal fetal anomalies and life-limiting diagnoses incompatible with life, allowing more abortions in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Filed
• TXHB82 2025By Briscoe Cain (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to the state (with narrow exceptions), so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, personhood ivf, provider clinic regulation, travel interstate shield, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB80 2025By Steve Toth (R) +2
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs and duties of Internet service providers; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Defines 'human being' and 'unborn child' as beginning at fertilization and states that human life begins at fertilization, while also defining abortion in terms of terminating a human life in the womb, which restricts legal access to abortion by establishing fetal personhood.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, travel interstate shield, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 18, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB37 2025By Angela Paxton (R)
  Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Requires public schools to teach a description of the growth and development of an 'unborn child' during each trimester of pregnancy, so more presentation of fetal development as a distinct entity in education.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 15, 2025: Filed
• TXSB6 2025By Bryan Hughes (R) · 15 cosponsors
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion l

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to/from Texas, with limited exceptions, so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, personhood ivf, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• TXHB6 2025By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to the provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the enforcement of and exceptions to laws regulating the provision of abortion-inducing drugs; providing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits providing abortion-inducing drugs by mail, courier or common carrier except in limited cases, and imposes new requirements like in-person exams and gestational verification before provision, so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation, personhood ivf
  ↔Mixed abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 8, 2025: Filed
• TXHB30 2025By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion l

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to/from Texas (with limited exceptions), so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, personhood ivf, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 8, 2025: Filed
• TXSB64 2025By Angela Paxton (R)
  Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Adds fetal development instruction to the required health curriculum for grades 7-8 and optionally other grades, with no provisions on gender identity, pronouns, or transgender topics.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Aug 4, 2025: Filed
• TXSB51 2025By Molly Cook (D) +2
  Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters, including infant supportive palliative care and exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the abortion prohibition for cases of lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis, as determined by two physicians, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, personhood ivf
  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 28, 2025: Filed
• TXHJR24 2025By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a right to personal reproductive autonomy that the state may not restrict or prohibit unless justified by a compelling state interest using the least restrictive means, which would protect and expand legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 22, 2025: Filed
• TXHB163 2025By Brent Money (R) +2
  Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.

  AI summary Defines 'individual' to include an unborn child from fertilization, applies homicide and assault laws equally to unborn victims, and repeals exceptions that had permitted certain prenatal homicides, so less legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, exceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 22, 2025: Filed
• TXSB34 2025By Carol Alvarado (D) +7
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a report, evidence or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 21, 2025: Filed
• TXSB33 2025By Carol Alvarado (D) +8
  Relating to exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds lethal fetal anomaly and life-limiting fetal diagnoses as new exceptions to the general abortion prohibition in Section 170A.002 and to related prohibitions in multiple other statutes, so more legal access to abortion in those circumstances.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 21, 2025: Filed
• TXHJR12 2025By John Bucy (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Establishes a constitutional right to abortion up to 24 weeks post-fertilization and carves out exceptions after that point, so more legal access to abortion before the limit and in certain cases after.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, ballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB95 2025By Nate Schatzline (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to a restriction on the sale or distribution of an abortion-inducing drug through an Internet website.

  AI summary Requires in-person physician exam before mailing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas addresses, so less access to medication abortion without an office visit.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB70 2025By Ellen Troxclair (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to prohibition of transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits transporting or funding transport of an unemancipated minor out of Texas for an abortion without parental consent, so less ability to obtain out-of-state abortions.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, personhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB69 2025By Ellen Troxclair (R)
  Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

  AI summary Requires in-person physician exam in Texas before providing abortion-inducing drug, so less medication abortion access via telemedicine or out-of-state providers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB66 2025By Steve Toth (R) · 3 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs and duties of Internet service providers; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Defines 'human being' and 'unborn child' as beginning at fertilization and states that human life begins at fertilization, while also defining abortion in terms of terminating a living human being in the womb; this expands legal recognition of the unborn as persons entitled to protection.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, funding insurance, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB65 2025By Briscoe Cain (R) +4 · 5 cosponsors
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to the state, with limited exceptions, so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, personhood ivf, provider clinic regulation, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXHB37 2025By Jared Patterson (R)
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to the state, with narrow exceptions, so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, personhood ivf, provider clinic regulation, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Jul 14, 2025: Filed
• TXSB33 2025-2026By Donna Campbell (R) +19 · 55 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to certain prohibited transactions and logistical support between a governmental entity and an abortion assistance entity or abortion provider for the procurement of an abortion or related services.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'abortion assistance entity' to include providing travel, lodging, meals or other logistical support for abortions regardless of location, and prohibits governmental entities from entering taxpayer resource transactions or spending money to provide such logistical support,

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, funding insurance, provider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• TXSB31 2025-2026By Bryan Hughes (R) +5 · 78 cosponsors
  Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.

  AI summary Broadens the medical emergency exception to abortions by clarifying that the life-threatening condition need not be imminent or have already caused impairment or damage, that 'life-threatening' includes conditions capable of causing death without actively injuring the patient, that treatment can be,

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  Stage: Law Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• TXSB2880 2025-2026By Bryan Hughes (R) · 9 cosponsors
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to the state (with narrow exceptions), so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, personhood ivf, provider clinic regulation, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 23, 2025: Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
• TXHB330 2025-2026By Terry Meza (D)
  Relating to reporting and investigating certain cases of child abuse or neglect involving a pregnant person's use of a controlled substance.

  AI summary Amends child abuse/neglect statutes to treat a pregnant person's illegal controlled substance use as potential child abuse or neglect (with treatment-based exemptions), which applies the concept of the fetus as a child subject to abuse protections.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 15, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• TXSB466 2025-2026By Angela Paxton (R) · 4 cosponsors
  Relating to the definition of fetal death certificate.

  AI summary Expands the definition of when a fetal death certificate is required to include any fetus at any weight or gestational age if requested by a family member, which recognizes the fetus as a person for official state documentation purposes.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXSB205 2025-2026By Angela Paxton (R) · 5 cosponsors
  Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Adds fetal development instruction to the required health curriculum for grades 7-8 and optionally other grades, with no provisions on gender identity, pronouns, or transgender topics.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB5494 2025-2026By John Bryant (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to parentage resulting from assisted reproduction and gestational agreements.

  AI summary Expands legal recognition of intended parents (including unmarried and non-genetic) in assisted reproduction and gestational agreements, including for children conceived via IVF and embryos, without creating fetal personhood or restricting abortion or IVF.

  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 14, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB3539 2025-2026By Caroline Harris Davila (R)
  Relating to the use of a high occupancy vehicle lane by an operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant.

  AI summary Treats an unborn child as counting toward vehicle occupancy in HOV lanes, so expands legal recognition of the unborn as equivalent to a born person for this purpose.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 8, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• TXHB1671 2025-2026By Jeff Leach (R)
  Relating to the establishment of parentage and the duty to pay retroactive child support, including the duty to pay retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

  AI summary Requires retroactive child support from the earliest possible date of conception (presumed reasonable), orders payment of prenatal/postnatal health expenses, and confirms a cumulative judgment, so more obligations for the paying parent.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) May 5, 2025: Withdrawn from schedule
• TXHB618 2025-2026By Armando Walle (D) +1
  Relating to health benefit plan coverage of certain in vitro fertilization procedures for certain governmental employees and retirees.

  AI summary Extends state-mandated insurance coverage for IVF procedures to certain governmental employees and retirees, so greater access to and use of IVF.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf, funding insurance
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 30, 2025: Considered in Calendars
• TXSB2626 2025-2026By Donna Campbell (R) +1 · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to ectopic pregnancies and continuing education for certain physicians and nurses regarding treatment of certain pregnancy-related conditions.

  AI summary Mandates continuing medical education for physicians and nurses treating pregnant women on standards of care for pregnancy-related emergencies, ectopic pregnancies, spontaneous abortions involving a dead unborn child, the statutory definition of abortion (including exclusions protecting unborn life)

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 28, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB5510 2025-2026By Jeff Leach (R) +3 · 44 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs, and to the destruction of certain property; making conforming changes and harmonizing conforming provisions; creating criminal offenses; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, possession, distribution, mailing, transport, delivery, prescription, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in or to Texas, and bans providing information, creating websites, apps, or software to facilitate access to them, so less access to medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, travel interstate shield, personhood ivf, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 25, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXHB3121 2025-2026By Nicole Collier (D)
  Relating to maternal mortality and morbidity in this state and Medicaid eligibility of and coverage for certain services provided to pregnant women.

  AI summary Creates a pilot Medicaid reimbursement program for doula services during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum, with reports on its impact on birth outcomes and maternal mortality, which expands coverage for supportive care to pregnant women.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 24, 2025: Withdrawn from schedule
• TXHB2197 2025-2026By Brent Money (R) +1 · 13 cosponsors
  Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.

  AI summary Defines 'individual' to include an unborn child from fertilization, applies homicide and assault laws equally to unborn victims, and repeals exceptions that had permitted certain prenatal homicides, so less legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 22, 2025: Withdrawn from schedule
• TXSB2961 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +4⚠ check quote
  Relating to wrongful death actions arising from the death of an unborn child resulting from an abortion.

  AI summary Removes the exemption from wrongful death suits for deaths of unborn children resulting from abortions (while keeping exemptions for other lawful procedures), allowing more civil suits for abortion-related fetal deaths and thereby reducing legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, exceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHJR204 2025-2026By James Talarico (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from restricting an individual's access to abortion and related health care.

  AI summary Proposes a constitutional amendment that would bar the legislature from restricting access to abortion or related health care chosen in consultation with a physician, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB5427 2025-2026By Erin Zwiener (D)
  Relating to prohibited conduct, enforcement actions, and proceedings concerning a pregnancy loss and to the provision of pregnancy loss information.

  AI summary Creates evidentiary and disclosure barriers (medical records, communications, compelled testimony) in proceedings related to pregnancy loss including abortion, and bars law-enforcement questioning or reporting of pregnancy loss except in narrow cases, shielding individuals from state enforcement.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  ↑Expands abortion accesstravel interstate shield, other
  =No change to abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB5422 2025-2026By Erin Zwiener (D)
  Relating to civil liability for a violation of or for aiding or abetting a violation of fetal heartbeat abortion laws.

  AI summary Amends the civil enforcement mechanism for Texas's fetal heartbeat abortion ban by narrowing who can be sued for aiding or abetting, raising the proof standard to clear and convincing evidence with specific intent, shortening the statute of limitations, adding defenses, and protecting certain speech

  ↑Expands abortion accessprovider clinic regulation, exceptions
  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB5386 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to allowing pregnant individuals to vote by mail if they will be in the second or third trimester on election day.

  AI summary Expands the category of voters eligible for mail-in ballots to include those in the second or third trimester of pregnancy on election day, in addition to those expecting to give birth within four weeks before or after election day.

  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Elections
• TXHB5310 2025-2026By James Talarico (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating abortion and the construction of abortion statutes.

  AI summary Repeals the Texas Heartbeat Act (Subchapter H of Chapter 171) and Chapter 170A which ban abortion after detection of fetal heartbeat and after 6 weeks, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, provider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB5277 2025-2026By Katrina Pierson (R) +1 · 11 cosponsors
  Relating 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.

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB5237 2025-2026By Maria Flores (D) +2 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to wrongful death actions arising from the death of an unborn child resulting from an abortion.

  AI summary Allows wrongful death suits specifically for the death of an unborn child from an abortion (removing the prior exemption for lawful abortions), enabling civil liability for abortions and thereby reducing legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXHB44 2025-2026By Charlie Geren (R) +4 · 56 cosponsors
  Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.

  AI summary Broadens the medical emergency exception for abortions by removing the 'life-threatening' qualifier, allowing abortions for conditions posing risk of death or serious impairment of major bodily function (not required to be imminent or irreversible), and clarifies that reasonable medical judgment can

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  ↔Mixed abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 7, 2025: Left pending in committee
• TXSB2727 2025-2026By Molly Cook (D) +1
  Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters, including infant supportive palliative care and exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the abortion ban for lethal fetal anomalies diagnosed by two physicians, and exempts such abortions from heartbeat-act procedures, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2625 2025-2026By Donna Campbell (R) +1
  Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

  AI summary Requires in-person physician exam and follow-up visit before and after providing abortion-inducing drugs, and bars out-of-state physicians from consulting on them, so less medication abortion access.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB4788 2025-2026By Joanne Shofner (R) · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to prohibiting public and private institutions of higher education from accepting federal funding for embryonic or fetal stem cell research.

  AI summary Prohibits higher education institutions from accepting federal funding for embryonic or fetal stem cell research, which restricts research using embryos or fetuses and aligns with fetal personhood principles that limit such activities.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Higher Education
• TXHB4595 2025-2026By Ellen Troxclair (R) +4 · 8 cosponsors
  Relating to prohibition of transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits transporting or funding transport of an unemancipated minor out of Texas for an abortion without parental consent, with criminal and civil penalties, so less ability to obtain out-of-state abortions.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, personhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB4593 2025-2026By Ellen Troxclair (R)
  Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

  AI summary Requires in-person physical exam by a Texas physician at the time of providing the drug, and applies telemedicine restrictions to abortion drug consultations, so less medication abortion access.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 3, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB4425 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Relating to prohibiting public officers and employees from displaying preferred gender pronouns; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits public employees and officers from using terms like 'gender-affirming care', referring to transgender individuals with nouns matching their gender identity, or using terms like 'cisgender', so less official recognition and use of transgender-related language in government communications.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 2, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB4318 2025-2026By Steve Toth (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to protecting parents and other individuals from criminal investigations or prosecution for refusing to affirm a child's homosexual or transgender inclinations or efforts to obtain an abortion.

  AI summary Protects parents and others from criminal liability for refusing to affirm or attempting to change a child's transgender inclinations or behavior, so less legal recognition of and access to services for transgender minors.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Apr 1, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB4208 2025-2026By David Lowe (R) +1
  Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students.

  AI summary Adds required fetal development instruction to the health curriculum but does not address gender identity, pronouns, sex-designated facilities, sports, or any transgender-specific policies.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB4183 2025-2026By Nate Schatzline (R)
  Relating to a prohibition on instruction regarding abortion in public schools; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits teachers from providing any instruction, information, materials, referrals, or discussions that promote or normalize abortion in public schools, with criminal penalties, termination, and civil liability, so less access to abortion-related education.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 31, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB3972 2025-2026By Keresa Richardson (R)
  Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Adds specific required instruction on fetal development and the concept that life begins at fertilization to the health curriculum for grades 6-8, but does not address gender identity, pronouns, or transgender issues.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 27, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXSB206 2025-2026By Angela Paxton (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to a webpage and mobile application for the provision of pregnancy-related resources and information.

  AI summary Creates a state webpage and optional app listing alternatives to abortion, abortion risks, child development from conception, and abortion pill reversal, so less legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother, personhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXHB3739 2025-2026By Joanne Shofner (R) · 11 cosponsors
  Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.

  AI summary Requires public schools to teach students about fetal development each week of pregnancy, medically assisted termination procedures including abortion-inducing drugs, and other acts of fetal termination, plus resources for carrying to term, so students receive more information intended to discourage

  ↓Restricts abortion accessbans gestational limits, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Referred to Public Education
• TXHB3734 2025-2026By Joanne Shofner (R) · 9 cosponsors
  Relating to testing for mifepristone and other estrogen hormones in public drinking water.

  AI summary Requires public drinking water testing specifically for mifepristone (the primary drug used in medication abortion), which increases scrutiny and monitoring of the drug's presence in the water supply.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 26, 2025: Referred to Natural Resources
• TXSB2447 2025-2026By Kevin Sparks (R)
  Relating to reporting requirements for assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization.

  AI summary Defines 'embryo' as a living organism from the moment of fertilization (including single-cell stage and cryopreserved embryos) and requires detailed tracking and reporting of what happens to each embryo created via IVF and other ART, including negligent destruction, intentional destruction with a 'f

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB2352 2025-2026By Phil King (R)⚠ check quote
  Relating to prohibiting transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

  AI summary Prohibits transporting or funding transport of an unemancipated minor out of Texas for an abortion without parental consent, so less ability to obtain out-of-state abortions.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, personhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2257 2025-2026By Molly Cook (D)
  Relating to the definition and provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

  AI summary Removes methotrexate from the definition of abortion-inducing drugs and deletes the requirement to document gestational age and intrauterine location to check for ectopic pregnancy before providing such drugs, so fewer regulatory requirements on medication abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessmedication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB2256 2025-2026By Molly Cook (D)
  Relating to the definition of ectopic pregnancy.

  AI summary Requires physicians to document the location of the pregnancy (removing the prior requirement to document only intrauterine location) before providing an abortion-inducing drug, to determine whether an ectopic pregnancy exists.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, medication abortion
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3668 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D)
  Relating to authorization for a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for whether an additional restriction on abortion access should be repealed.

  AI summary Authorizes a non-binding statewide referendum for voters to express preference on repealing any additional abortion restrictions enacted by the 89th Legislature, so more likely to lead to repeal of abortion restrictions and greater legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, bans gestational limits
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 25, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3410 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters and to the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Prohibits local governments from banning travel through their jurisdiction to obtain an abortion and bars construing abortion statutes to prohibit assistance for travel to obtain an abortion, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accesstravel interstate shield, personhood ivf, bans gestational limits, provider clinic regulation, medication abortion, exceptions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3406 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)
  Relating to the medical accuracy of informational materials given to a woman seeking an abortion.

  AI summary Requires the state health department to submit its abortion informational materials to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for verification of medical accuracy and to incorporate ACOG recommendations for revisions, so the materials provided to women seeking abortions will more or

  =No change to abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 21, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB3200 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R)
  Prohibiting certain transactions between governmental entities and abortion funds, as well as entities engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity as defined by federal law.

  AI summary Expands the prohibition on taxpayer resource transactions to include abortion funds (entities that aid or abet elective abortions by paying, reimbursing or subsidizing their costs) in addition to abortion providers and affiliates, so less public funding or resources flow to support abortion access.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessfunding insurance, personhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB3132 2025-2026By Daniel Alders (R) · 24 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to reporting requirements for assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization.

  AI summary Defines 'embryo' as a living organism from fertilization and requires detailed tracking and reporting of embryo creation, transfer, destruction, and outcomes in IVF and related procedures, increasing legal and regulatory scrutiny of IVF practices.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 20, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2896 2025-2026By Rafael Anchia (D)
  Relating to insurance coverage for the disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains.

  AI summary 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.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessfunding insurance
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Insurance
• TXHB2843 2025-2026By Erin Zwiener (D)
  Relating to civil liability for sexual assault resulting in a pregnancy carried to term.

  AI summary Creates civil liability specifically for sexual assault that results in a pregnancy that the victim carries to term, which recognizes the unborn child in the context of resulting legal obligations and damages for its birth and care.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXHB2831 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to the collection of reproductive health information; imposing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Imposes consent, privacy, and disclosure restrictions on the collection, processing, sale, and geofencing of reproductive health information (including data on abortion and related services), so less sharing of such data with governments or third parties without consent.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 19, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2651 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to an exemption from abortion restrictions for unemancipated minors and the repeal of provisions regarding notice and consent to those abortions.

  AI summary 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.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 18, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXHJR130 2025-2026By John Bucy (D)
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Establishes a constitutional right to abortion up to 24 weeks post-fertilization and beyond in cases to preserve life or health or per general-law exceptions, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, other
  =No change to abortion accessballot constitutional
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB2586 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)
  Relating to minimum standards for pregnancy resource centers.

  AI summary Imposes state minimum standards, equivalent requirements to abortion-related rules, ambulatory surgical center standards, and on-site licensed OB/GYN presence on pregnancy resource centers that do not perform or refer for abortions, increasing regulatory burdens on these centers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2585 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D)
  Relating to the capacity of minors to consent to contraception-related examination or medical treatment.

  AI summary The bill defines 'contraception' as reversible methods approved by the FDA and explicitly excludes abortion from the new consent provision, but does not define an unborn child, grant legal rights to the unborn, or address fetal personhood or IVF.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2423 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)⚠ check quote
  Relating to an exemption from the definition of abortion for treatment provided for a miscarriage.

  AI summary Expands the statutory exemption from the definition of abortion to cover any medically appropriate treatment for a miscarriage or suspected miscarriage, rather than only removal of a dead fetus from spontaneous abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 17, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2263 2025-2026By Caroline Fairly (R) +2
  Relating to a webpage and mobile application for the provision of pregnancy-related resources and information.

  AI summary Creates a state webpage and optional app listing alternatives to abortion, abortion risks, child development from conception, and healing services for abortion survivors, so less legal access to abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother, personhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2251 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Expands the list of circumstances in which abortions are allowed under the state's prohibition, including health risks, severe fetal anomalies, multiple fetuses with risk, miscarriage risks, and rape or sexual assault.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2182 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D)
  Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense an emergency contraceptive.

  AI summary Authorizes pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives (including some that can act after fertilization) without a prescription via a statewide order, increasing access to medication that can prevent or end early pregnancy.

  ↑Expands abortion accessmedication abortion, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2158 2025-2026By Gina Hinojosa (D)
  Relating to an exception to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to Texas's abortion prohibition for cases of lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis, based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment, so more legal access to abortion in those circumstances.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB2023 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D) +1
  Relating to the coverage of emergency contraceptive drugs by health benefit plans.

  AI summary Requires health plans that cover prescription contraceptives to also cover emergency contraceptive drugs (which can prevent implantation) without a prescription at least once per year, increasing access to and insurance coverage for such drugs.

  ↑Expands abortion accessmedication abortion, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Insurance
• TXHB1987 2025-2026By Rhetta Bowers (D)
  Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Repeals Chapter 170A (Texas Heartbeat Act banning most abortions after detection of embryonic cardiac activity) and other statutes that prohibited abortions, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, medication abortion, other
  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1986 2025-2026By Rhetta Bowers (D) +1 · 3 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Allows medication abortion using either the FDA final printed label protocol or the 2013 ACOG guidelines (which permitted higher doses and later use than current FDA label), and repeals multiple statutes that had imposed stricter limits on medication abortion, so more legal access to medication-abut

  ↑Expands abortion accessmedication abortion, bans gestational limits
  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1919 2025-2026By John Bryant (D) +1 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to state liability for denial of health care services arising from laws limiting or prohibiting reproductive health care.

  AI summary Creates a cause of action and waives sovereign immunity allowing individuals to sue the state for damages from denial of reproductive health care including abortion due to state laws, making it legally costly for the state to restrict abortion access.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB1811 2025-2026By Suleman Lalani (D)
  Relating to the duration of services provided under Medicaid to women following a pregnancy.

  AI summary Extends postpartum Medicaid coverage from 12 months to 24 months after pregnancy, increasing public funding for health services for women after pregnancy.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance
  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to s/c on Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health by Speaker
• TXHB1806 2025-2026By Candy Noble (R) +1 · 54 cosponsors
  Relating to certain prohibited transactions and logistical support between a governmental entity and an abortion assistance entity or abortion provider for the procurement of an abortion or related services.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'abortion assistance entity' to include those providing travel, lodging, meals, or other logistical support for abortions regardless of location, and prohibits governmental entities from providing or funding such support, so less practical access to out-of-state abortions.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, funding insurance, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 14, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1831 2025-2026By Tan Parker (R)
  Relating 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.

  AI summary Removes 'voluntary' terminations from the exemption, so the Maternal Mortality Review Committee must now study and review cases, trends, and records of voluntary (elective) abortions, increasing state collection and scrutiny of abortion-related maternal health data.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 13, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXHB1651 2025-2026By Nate Schatzline (R)
  Relating to a restriction on the sale or distribution of an abortion-inducing drug through an Internet website.

  AI summary Requires in-person physician exam before a patient can obtain an abortion-inducing drug via an internet website for delivery in Texas, so less access to medication abortion without an in-person visit.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessmedication abortion
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1578 2025-2026By Penny Morales Shaw (D)
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds exceptions to the general abortion prohibition for abortions needed to prevent serious harm to the patient's health or well-being (as defined by the Medical Board) and for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, so more legal access to abortion in those circumstances.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  =No change to abortion accessbans gestational limits, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 12, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXSB730 2025-2026By Donna Campbell (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to certain prohibited transactions and logistical support between a governmental entity and an abortion assistance entity or abortion provider for the procurement of an abortion or related services.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'abortion assistance entity' to include providing travel, lodging, meals or other logistical support for abortions (regardless of location) and prohibits governmental entities from entering taxpayer resource transactions with such entities or providing such support, so less

  ↓Restricts abortion accesstravel interstate shield, funding insurance, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Co-author authorized
• TXSB1685 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to minimum standards for pregnancy resource centers.

  AI summary Imposes licensing-like minimum standards, equivalent ambulatory surgical center rules, and on-site OB/GYN requirement on pregnancy resource centers that do not perform or refer for abortions, increasing regulatory burden on these non-abortion providers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB1684 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to the regulation of limited service pregnancy resource centers; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty.

  AI summary Imposes mandatory disclosures, disclaimers, and large posted signs on limited service pregnancy resource centers stating they do not perform or refer for abortions or provide birth control, with criminal and civil penalties for violations, so more regulation of anti-abortion centers.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessprovider clinic regulation, other
  =No change to abortion accessfunding insurance
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB1682 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds exceptions to the general abortion prohibition for cases of future infertility, non-viable pregnancy, or pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, so more legal access to abortion in those circumstances.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB1493 2025-2026By Ann Johnson (D)
  Relating to liability for the provision of certain medical treatment to a pregnant woman by a physician or health care provider.

  AI summary Expands the affirmative defense to civil liability for physicians providing treatment to pregnant women in cases of ectopic pregnancy, previable premature rupture of membranes, or other complications likely to cause serious bodily injury, allowing more such treatments without liability under the pre

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 11, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXHB1307 2025-2026By Claudia Ordaz Perez (D)
  Relating to the definition of abortion.

  AI summary Adds explicit exemption for in vitro fertilization to the statutory definition of 'abortion' and defines the term, so IVF remains legal and is not treated as abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1304 2025-2026By Andy Hopper (R) +1 · 18 cosponsors
  Relating to required labeling of certain products containing or derived from aborted human fetal tissue.

  AI summary Defines 'human fetal tissue' as tissue from an 'aborted unborn child' and requires labeling of products containing, manufactured using, or derived from it (including fetal cell lines), which treats the fetus as a distinct human entity from conception onward.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1254 2025-2026By Trey Martinez Fischer (D)
  Related to expanding the exemptions of abortions and Texas women's access to reproductive healthcare including in vitro fertilization.

  AI summary Adds new exceptions allowing abortions for women 35+ or with high-risk conditions, or if pregnancy from IVF, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, personhood ivf, bans gestational limits
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1220 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D) +1
  Relating to exceptions to laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds new exceptions to multiple Texas abortion prohibitions (third-trimester, heartbeat, medication, partial-birth, dismemberment, and pre-viability) for women 35+ or with high-risk conditions or IVF pregnancies, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, personhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1219 2025-2026By Mihaela Plesa (D) +1
  Relating to prioritization of a pregnant individual's health when providing health care treatments; authorizing an administrative penalty.

  AI summary Establishes that the pregnant individual's health must be prioritized over the fetus in treatment recommendations, creating a broad health exception that allows treatments risking the fetus.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1207 2025-2026By Jessica Gonzalez (D) +2 · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to conditions applicable to health benefit plan coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures.

  AI summary Removes the requirement that IVF use only the patient's spouse's sperm and shortens the required infertility history from five to three years, so more people qualify for mandated insurance coverage of IVF procedures.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 10, 2025: Referred to Insurance
• TXHJR80 2025-2026By Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos (D) +1
  Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the rights to an abortion and to assisted reproductive technology treatments and procedures, including in vitro fertilization.

  AI summary Constitutionalizes a right to abortion before fetal viability or when needed for health, preventing the state from prohibiting or restricting it in those cases, so more legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, personhood ivf, ballot constitutional
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB1161 2025-2026By Gina Hinojosa (D)
  Relating to an advance directive and do-not-resuscitate order of a pregnant woman and information provided for an advance directive.

  AI summary Removes the provision that an advance directive has no effect if the person is pregnant, allowing pregnant persons to specify that pregnancy modifies (including potentially overriding) their directive for life-sustaining treatment, so less legal effect given to the unborn in end-of-life decisions.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB1143 2025-2026By Tom Oliverson (R) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to the establishment of a memorial monument dedicated to unborn children on the Capitol grounds.

  AI summary Establishes a state memorial monument dedicated to 'unborn children,' which promotes the concept of fetal personhood.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism
• TXHB1098 2025-2026By Sheryl Cole (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Relating to the coverage and provision of abortion, contraception, and sterilization under Medicaid and certain health benefit plans.

  AI summary Requires Medicaid and private health plans to cover abortion services without cost-sharing, prior authorization, utilization review or other restrictions, so more financial access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Insurance
• TXHB1084 2025-2026By Pat Curry (R)
  Relating to the regulation of in vitro fertilization procedures; authorizing an administrative penalty.

  AI summary Prohibits terminating any unborn child in a multifetal pregnancy from IVF and requires physicians to perform IVF only on those intending to carry each embryo to term, which treats embryos as having rights against termination and limits IVF practices to protect them.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, provider clinic regulation
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 7, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXSB1521 2025-2026By Nathan Johnson (D)
  Relating to the regulation of abortion and related matters, including the repeal of certain abortion laws, a deposition request before filing certain civil actions, and municipal or county authority to prohibit movement.

  AI summary 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.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, personhood ivf, travel interstate shield, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB991 2025-2026By Steve Toth (R) · 3 cosponsors⚠ check quote
  Relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs and duties of Internet service providers; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a private civil right of action.

  AI summary Prohibits manufacture, possession, distribution, mailing, transport, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs in the state with only narrow exceptions, effectively banning medication abortion.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, bans gestational limits, medication abortion, provider clinic regulation, funding insurance, travel interstate shield
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB965 2025-2026By Cassandra Garcia Hernandez (D)
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a police report, forensic evidence, or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 6, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB757 2025-2026By Armando Walle (D)
  Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women following a pregnancy.

  AI summary Extends postpartum Medicaid coverage from 12 months to at least 24 months after pregnancy, increasing public funding for health services for women after pregnancy.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance
  =No change to abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 5, 2025: Referred to s/c on Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health by Speaker
• TXHJR33 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D) · 3 cosponsors
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a right to personal reproductive autonomy that the state may not restrict or prohibit unless justified by a compelling state interest using the least restrictive means, which would protect and expand legal access to abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB585 2025-2026By Vikki Goodwin (D)
  Relating to the right to assistive reproductive technology treatments and procedures, including in vitro fertilization.

  AI summary Creates a statutory right to IVF and other assistive reproductive technology treatments, and prohibits the state from prohibiting or unreasonably limiting them, so more legal access to IVF.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Mar 3, 2025: Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
• TXSB1303 2025-2026By Molly Cook (D) +1
  Relating to the capacity of minors to consent to contraception-related examination or medical treatment.

  AI summary Allows minors to consent to contraception-related exams and treatment (other than abortion), expanding access to contraception without parental involvement.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  =No change to abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB1204 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R)
  Relating to an unborn child's rights and the civil and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct regarding an unborn child.

  AI summary Expands the definition of 'individual' to include an unborn child at every stage from fertilization, and applies Penal Code provisions equally to unborn victims, which restricts legal access to abortion by treating the unborn as persons with rights.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, exceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXHB427 2025-2026By Briscoe Cain (R) +4 · 2 cosponsors
  Relating to the use of a high occupancy vehicle lane by an operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant.

  AI summary Defines the fetus as an 'unborn child' that counts toward HOV occupancy, treating the unborn as a legal passenger equivalent to a born person.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Transportation
• TXHB395 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a police report, forensic evidence, or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXHB317 2025-2026By Mary Gonzalez (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to an employee's right to time off from work if the employee experiences a reproductive loss.

  AI summary Creates a right to unpaid time off from work after experiencing a reproductive loss including miscarriage or stillbirth, so more workplace accommodations tied to pregnancy loss.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to s/c on Workforce by Speaker
• TXHB308 2025-2026By James Talarico (D)
  Relating to a suit for dissolution of a marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.

  AI summary Allows a suit affecting the parent-child relationship to be filed regarding an unborn child before birth in a divorce proceeding, and requires such a suit to be included if pregnancy is disclosed, treating the unborn child as a subject of custody and support proceedings.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker
• TXHB302 2025-2026By Jon Rosenthal (D)
  Relating to a prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions and certain employment agreements limiting reproductive decisions.

  AI summary Adds 'reproductive decisions' (including pregnancy, contraception, assisted reproduction, and reproductive health care) as a protected category against employment discrimination, and voids agreements limiting them, so more legal protection for reproductive choices including abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother, funding insurance
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 28, 2025: Referred to s/c on Workforce by Speaker
• TXHB257 2025-2026By Donna Howard (D) · 1 cosponsor
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Broadens the medical exceptions to the abortion prohibition to include abortions that are 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 removes the requirement that the procedure be in

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, personhood ivf, bans gestational limits
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 27, 2025: Referred to Public Health
• TXSB1072 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D)
  Relating to allowing pregnant individuals to vote by mail if they will be in the second or third trimester on election day.

  AI summary Expands the category of voters eligible for mail-in ballots to include those in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, in addition to those expecting to give birth within four weeks before or after election day.

  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 24, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB833 2025-2026By Nathan Johnson (D)
  Relating to conditions applicable to health benefit plan coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures.

  AI summary Removes the requirement that IVF use only the patient's spouse's sperm and shortens the required infertility history from five to three years, so more people qualify for mandated insurance coverage of IVF procedures.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 13, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB737 2025-2026By Jose Menendez (D)
  Relating to the duties of the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee and the collection, maintenance, and disclosure of maternal health records regarding miscarriage and lack of access to therapeutic termination of pregnancy.

  AI summary Expands the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee's study and data collection to include cases related to miscarriage or lack of access to therapeutic termination of pregnancy, and allows collection of such records that were previously excluded.

  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB721 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R)
  Relating to prohibiting the disbursement of certain economic and tax incentives to entities that assist, refer, or otherwise encourage a woman to obtain an abortion.

  AI summary Prohibits disbursement of state economic development grants, loans, tax incentives, and other funds to any entity that assists, refers, or encourages abortion, so less public funding for abortion-related activities.

  ↓Restricts abortion accessfunding insurance
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 7, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSJR20 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +6
  Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

  AI summary Proposes a constitutional amendment that would protect the right to personal reproductive autonomy and subject any state restrictions to strict scrutiny, making broader legal access to abortion more likely if adopted.

  ↑Expands abortion accessballot constitutional, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB361 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +3
  Relating to a prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions and certain employment agreements limiting reproductive decisions.

  AI summary Adds 'reproductive decisions' (including pregnancy, contraception, assisted reproduction, and reproductive health care) as a protected category against employment discrimination, and voids agreements limiting them, so more legal protection for reproductive choices including abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Economic Development
• TXSB360 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +3
  Relating to an advance directive and do-not-resuscitate order of a pregnant woman and information provided for an advance directive.

  AI summary Removes the provision that an advance directive or DNR has no effect if the woman is pregnant, allowing a pregnant woman to specify that life-sustaining treatment be withheld even during pregnancy, so greater ability to forgo treatment that would sustain the fetus.

  ↑Expands abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB359 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +4⚠ check quote
  Relating to the coverage and provision of abortion, contraception, and sterilization under Medicaid and certain health benefit plans.

  AI summary Requires Medicaid and private health plans to cover abortion services without cost-sharing, prior authorization, utilization review or other restrictions, and repeals prior prohibitions on such coverage, so more insurance funding and access for abortion.

  ↑Expands abortion accessfunding insurance, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB350 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +4
  Relating to prioritization of a pregnant individual's health when providing health care treatments; authorizing an administrative penalty.

  AI summary Requires physicians to prioritize the pregnant person's health over the fetus when recommending treatment, even if it risks fetal injury or death, which reduces the legal weight given to fetal interests relative to existing Texas law that treats the fetus as having independent interests in many care

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf
  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB348 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +4
  Relating to the capacity of certain minors to consent to examination and postpartum or contraception-related medical treatment.

  AI summary Expands the list of minors who can consent to medical treatment related to pregnancy or postpartum care without parental involvement, but explicitly excludes abortion from that consent.

  =No change to abortion accessexceptions, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services
• TXSB308 2025-2026By Sarah Eckhardt (D) +6
  Relating to the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Repeals Chapter 170A of the Health and Safety Code (the Texas Heartbeat Act banning most abortions after detection of cardiac activity) and Chapter 6-1/2 of Title 71, Revised Statutes (the pre-Roe near-total ban), so more legal access to abortion before viability.

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, other, personhood ivf
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB257 2025-2026By Carol Alvarado (D) +6
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary Adds an exception to the general abortion prohibition for pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or related offenses, without requiring a police report, forensic evidence, or prosecution, so more legal access to abortion in those cases.

  ↑Expands abortion accessexceptions, bans gestational limits
  =No change to abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB256 2025-2026By Carol Alvarado (D) +7⚠ check quote
  Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

  AI summary 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 (

  ↑Expands abortion accessbans gestational limits, exceptions, personhood ivf
  ↔Mixed abortion accessother
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to State Affairs
• TXSB122 2025-2026By Bob Hall (R)
  Relating to required labeling of certain products containing or derived from aborted human fetal tissue.

  AI summary Defines 'human fetal tissue' as tissue from an 'aborted unborn child' and requires labeling of products containing, manufactured using, or derived from it (including fetal cell lines), which treats the fetus as a distinct human entity from conception onward.

  ↓Restricts abortion accesspersonhood ivf, other
  Stage: ✕ Died (session ended) Feb 3, 2025: Referred to Health & Human Services

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