Bill Caption

Relating to abortion reporting and exemptions to abortion facility licensing; creating a criminal offense. 

Fiscal Notes

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. 

Bill Analysis

SB 1146 would require a physician who performs an abortion at a location other than a licensed abortion facility to complete and submit a monthly report, by the 15th day of each month, to the Health and Human Services Commission listing each abortion. The reports would not identify by any means the patient and would have to include the type of facility the abortion was performed in, the patient's demographics, the type of abortion performed, the date it was performed, the patient survival status, the probable age of the unborn child, the date of the patient's last menstrual cycle, the number of live births of the patient, the number of previous abortions, and the county the abortion was performed. 

SB 1146 would consider these record confidential and they could only be released or made public by subpoena, for statistical purposes after being de-identified, with the consent of each person, patient, and physician in the information released, to medical personnel, appropriate state agencies, or county and district courts, or to appropriate state licensing boards. 

SB 1146 would make a violation of this section a Class A Misdemeanor. The commission would be required to establish and maintain a secure electronic reporting system for submitting these reports. 

Vote Recommendation Notes

SB 1146 concerns a social issue on which Texas Action remains neutral.