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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.002

APPLICABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 7), Sec. 2, eff

(a) This chapter does not apply to and a civil action under this chapter may not be brought against:

(1) a hospital;

(2) a health care facility licensed, owned, maintained, or operated by this state;

(3) a health care provider, other than a provider against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);

(4) a physician, other than a physician against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);

(5) a physician group;

(6) an Internet service provider or the provider's affiliates or subsidiaries;

(7) an Internet search engine;

(8) a cloud service provider solely providing access or connection to or from an Internet website or other information or content on the Internet or on a facility, system, or network that is not under the provider's control, including transmission, downloading, intermediate storage, access software, or other services; or

(9) a person who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, provides, or possesses abortion-inducing drugs in this state solely for one or more of the following purposes:

(A) treating a medical emergency;

(B) removing an ectopic pregnancy;

(C) removing a dead, unborn child whose death was caused by spontaneous abortion; or

(D) a purpose that does not include performing, inducing, attempting, or assisting an abortion, other than an abortion performed in response to a medical emergency.

(b) This chapter may not be construed to require the actual performance, inducement, or attempted performance of an abortion in order for a person to bring a civil action authorized by this chapter.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.