Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4260 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Farrar H.B. No. 4260
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the regulation of men's health and safety; creating a
7	7	civil penalty for unregulated masturbatory emissions.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
10	10	amended by adding Chapter 173 to read as follows:
11	11	Sec. 173.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be called the
12	12	Man's Right to Know Act.
13	13	Sec. 173.002. PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to
14	14	express the state's interest in promoting men's health; ensure
15	15	Texas men experience safe and healthy elective vasectomies, Viagra
16	16	utilizations, colonoscopies procedures, and men's health
17	17	experiences; ensure a doctor's right to invoke their personal,
18	18	moralistic, or religious beliefs in refusing to perform an elective
19	19	vasectomy or prescribe Viagra; and promote fully-abstinent sexual
20	20	relations or occasional masturbatory emissions inside health care
21	21	and medical facilities, as a means of the healthiest way to ensure
22	22	men's health.
23	23	Sec. 173.003. INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS. The Department of
24	24	State Health Services shall create and distribute informational
25	25	materials containing information reflecting the requirements and
26	26	legislative intent in this Chapter. The Department shall entitle
27	27	the information materials "A Man's Right to Know." The Department
28	28	shall establish rules and procedures for the creation and
29	29	distribution of the informational materials that exactly follow the
30	30	rules and procedures of the informational booklet entitled "A
31	31	Woman's Right To Know." The booklet will contain scientific
32	32	information that must be verified and supported by research that is
33	33	recognized as medically accurate, objective, and complete by the
34	34	National Institutes of Health and affiliated organizations. The
35	35	booklet must contain medical information related to the benefits
36	36	and concerns of a man seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or a
37	37	colonoscopy. The booklet must contain artistic illustrations of
38	38	each procedure.
39	39	Sec. 173.004. PROHIBITED CAUSES OF ACTION. A cause of
40	40	action may not arise, and damages may not be awarded, on behalf of
41	41	any person based on the claim their doctor refused to perform a
42	42	vasectomy procedure, prescribe Viagra, perform a colonoscopy, or
43	43	withheld any other men's health procedure due to their personal,
44	44	moralistic, or religious beliefs. This section may not be
45	45	construed to eliminate any duty of a physician or other health care
46	46	practitioner under any other applicable law.
47	47	Sec. 173.005. VIEWING PRINTED MATERIALS; HEARING VERBAL
48	48	EXPLANATION. An attending physician must verbally review the
49	49	informational booklet entitled "A Man's Right To Know" with every
50	50	male patient seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or
51	51	colonoscopy.
52	52	Sec. 173.006. INFORMED CONSENT REQUIRED. A person may not
53	53	perform an elective vasectomy, prescribe Viagra, or perform a
54	54	colonoscopy procedure without the voluntary and informed consent of
55	55	the man on whom the elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure is
56	56	to be performed, or Viagra is to be prescribed.
57	57	Sec. 173.007. VOLUNTARY AND INFORMED CONSENT. Consent to
58	58	an elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or a prescription
59	59	of Viagra is voluntary and informed only if at least 24 hours have
60	60	passed since the initial health care consultation for the procedure
61	61	or prescription.
62	62	Sec. 173.008. HOSPITAL MASTURBATORY ASSISTANCE REGISTRY.
63	63	The Department must establish and maintain a registry of private
64	64	nonprofit organizations and hospitals that register with the
65	65	department to provide fully-abstinent encouragement counseling,
66	66	supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for
67	67	the semen. Costs will be absorbed by the hospital or contributing
68	68	private nonprofits.
69	69	Sec. 173.009. SONOGRAM ELECTION. An attending physician
70	70	must administer a medically-unnecessary digital rectal exam and
71	71	magnetic resonance imagining of the rectum before administering an
72	72	elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or prescribing
73	73	Viagra. This digital rectal exam and rectal sonogram must take
74	74	place during the initial health care consultation before an
75	75	elective vasectomy is performed, a prescription is given for
76	76	Viagra, or a colonoscopy is performed.
77	77	Sec. 173.010. FINES RELATED TO MASTURBATORY EMISSIONS.
78	78	Masturbatory emissions created in health or medical facilities will
79	79	be stored for the purposes of conception for a current or future
80	80	wife.
81	81	(a) Emissions outside of a woman's vagina, or created
82	82	outside of a health or medical facility, will be charged a $100
83	83	civil penalty for each emission, and will be considered an act
84	84	against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of
85	85	life.
86	86	(b) Penalties collected under this section will be
87	87	deposited in a fund established by the Department of Family and
88	88	Protective Services for the purpose of the care and services
89	89	provided to children in the conservatorship of the Department of
90	90	Family Protective Services in order to assist in the assertion of
91	91	the importance of the sanctity of life.
92	92	SECTION 2. (a) By not later than December 1, 2017, the
93	93	Department of State Health Services shall make the materials
94	94	required in this Chapter available for distribution.
95	95	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.