Texas 2017 - 85th 1st C.S.

Texas Senate Bill SB53 Compare Versions

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1	1	85S10410 JCG-D
2	2	By: Huffines S.B. No. 53
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the participation of a charitable organization that
8	8	facilitates the procurement of an elective abortion in the state
9	9	employee charitable campaign.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 659.146, Government Code, is amended by
12	12	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
13	13	follows:
14	14	(a) To be eligible to participate in a state employee
15	15	charitable campaign, a charitable organization must:
16	16	(1) be governed by a voluntary board of citizens that
17	17	meets at least twice each year to set policy and manage the affairs
18	18	of the organization;
19	19	(2) if the organization's annual budget:
20	20	(A) does not exceed $250,000, provide a completed
21	21	Internal Revenue Service Form 990 and an accountant's review that
22	22	offers full and open disclosure of the organization's internal
23	23	operations; or
24	24	(B) exceeds $250,000, be audited annually in
25	25	accordance with generally accepted auditing standards of the
26	26	American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; [and]
27	27	(3) not spend more than 25 percent of its annual
28	28	revenue for administrative and fund-raising expenses; and
29	29	(4) not directly or indirectly facilitate the
30	30	procurement of an elective abortion.
31	31	(h) In this section, "elective abortion" means, for a female
32	32	known by an attending physician to be pregnant, the intentional
33	33	termination of the pregnancy using any means reasonably likely to
34	34	cause the death of the fetus. The term does not include the
35	35	termination of a pregnancy:
36	36	(1) that resulted from an act of rape or incest;
37	37	(2) for a female who suffers from a physical disorder,
38	38	disability, or illness, including a life-threatening physical
39	39	condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy, that, as
40	40	certified by a physician, places the female in danger of death or
41	41	risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an
42	42	abortion is performed; or
43	43	(3) that involves a fetus with a life-threatening
44	44	physical condition that, in reasonable medical judgment and
45	45	regardless of the provision of lifesaving treatment, is
46	46	incompatible with life outside the womb.
47	47	SECTION 2. Not later than April 1, 2018, the state employee
48	48	charitable campaign policy committee shall modify the guidelines
49	49	established under Section 659.146(f), Government Code, for
50	50	evaluating the applications of charitable organizations to be
51	51	consistent with the changes in law made by this Act. The state
52	52	employee charitable campaign policy committee shall exclude from
53	53	participation in a state employee charitable campaign any
54	54	charitable organization that does not meet the modified guidelines.
55	55	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
56	56	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
57	57	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
58	58	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
59	59	Act takes effect December 1, 2017.