By: Farrar H.B. No. 4260
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of men's health and safety; creating a
civil penalty for unregulated masturbatory emissions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 173 to read as follows:
Sec. 173.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be called the
Man's Right to Know Act.
Sec. 173.002. PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to
express the state's interest in promoting men's health; ensure
Texas men experience safe and healthy elective vasectomies, Viagra
utilizations, colonoscopies procedures, and men's health
experiences; ensure a doctor's right to invoke their personal,
moralistic, or religious beliefs in refusing to perform an elective
vasectomy or prescribe Viagra; and promote fully-abstinent sexual
relations or occasional masturbatory emissions inside health care
and medical facilities, as a means of the healthiest way to ensure
men's health.
Sec. 173.003. INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS. The Department of
State Health Services shall create and distribute informational
materials containing information reflecting the requirements and
legislative intent in this Chapter. The Department shall entitle
the information materials "A Man's Right to Know." The Department
shall establish rules and procedures for the creation and
distribution of the informational materials that exactly follow the
rules and procedures of the informational booklet entitled "A
Woman's Right To Know." The booklet will contain scientific
information that must be verified and supported by research that is
recognized as medically accurate, objective, and complete by the
National Institutes of Health and affiliated organizations. The
booklet must contain medical information related to the benefits
and concerns of a man seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or a
colonoscopy. The booklet must contain artistic illustrations of
each procedure.
Sec. 173.004. PROHIBITED CAUSES OF ACTION. A cause of
action may not arise, and damages may not be awarded, on behalf of
any person based on the claim their doctor refused to perform a
vasectomy procedure, prescribe Viagra, perform a colonoscopy, or
withheld any other men's health procedure due to their personal,
moralistic, or religious beliefs. This section may not be
construed to eliminate any duty of a physician or other health care
practitioner under any other applicable law.
Sec. 173.005. VIEWING PRINTED MATERIALS; HEARING VERBAL
EXPLANATION. An attending physician must verbally review the
informational booklet entitled "A Man's Right To Know" with every
male patient seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or
colonoscopy.
Sec. 173.006. INFORMED CONSENT REQUIRED. A person may not
perform an elective vasectomy, prescribe Viagra, or perform a
colonoscopy procedure without the voluntary and informed consent of
the man on whom the elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure is
to be performed, or Viagra is to be prescribed.
Sec. 173.007. VOLUNTARY AND INFORMED CONSENT. Consent to
an elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or a prescription
of Viagra is voluntary and informed only if at least 24 hours have
passed since the initial health care consultation for the procedure
or prescription.
Sec. 173.008. HOSPITAL MASTURBATORY ASSISTANCE REGISTRY.
The Department must establish and maintain a registry of private
nonprofit organizations and hospitals that register with the
department to provide fully-abstinent encouragement counseling,
supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for
the semen. Costs will be absorbed by the hospital or contributing
private nonprofits.
Sec. 173.009. SONOGRAM ELECTION. An attending physician
must administer a medically-unnecessary digital rectal exam and
magnetic resonance imagining of the rectum before administering an
elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or prescribing
Viagra. This digital rectal exam and rectal sonogram must take
place during the initial health care consultation before an
elective vasectomy is performed, a prescription is given for
Viagra, or a colonoscopy is performed.
Sec. 173.010. FINES RELATED TO MASTURBATORY EMISSIONS.
Masturbatory emissions created in health or medical facilities will
be stored for the purposes of conception for a current or future
wife.
(a) Emissions outside of a woman's vagina, or created
outside of a health or medical facility, will be charged a $100
civil penalty for each emission, and will be considered an act
against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of
life.
(b) Penalties collected under this section will be
deposited in a fund established by the Department of Family and
Protective Services for the purpose of the care and services
provided to children in the conservatorship of the Department of
Family Protective Services in order to assist in the assertion of
the importance of the sanctity of life.
SECTION 2. (a) By not later than December 1, 2017, the
Department of State Health Services shall make the materials
required in this Chapter available for distribution.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.