| 1 | 1 | | 89R15349 AJZ-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Hopper H.B. No. 4710 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to traveling with a child to facilitate the provision of |
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| 10 | 10 | | certain gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures or |
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| 11 | 11 | | treatments to that child; creating a criminal offense. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter X, Chapter 161, Health and Safety |
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| 14 | 14 | | Code, as added by Chapter 335 (S.B. 14), Acts of the 88th |
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| 15 | 15 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is amended by adding Section |
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| 16 | 16 | | 161.707 to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | Sec. 161.707. CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an |
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| 18 | 18 | | offense if the person travels from this state to a location outside |
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| 19 | 19 | | this state with a child who is a resident of this state to |
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| 20 | 20 | | facilitate the child's ability to receive a procedure or treatment |
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| 21 | 21 | | that would otherwise be prohibited by Section 161.702 if the |
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| 22 | 22 | | procedure or treatment occurred in this state. |
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| 23 | 23 | | (b) It is an exception to the application of this section |
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| 24 | 24 | | that the conduct occurred solely to enable the child to receive a |
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| 25 | 25 | | procedure or treatment that is authorized under Section 161.703. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (c) An offense under this section is a felony of the first |
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| 27 | 27 | | degree. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 2. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular |
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| 29 | 29 | | Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act to Subchapter X, |
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| 30 | 30 | | Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, be harmonized with another Act |
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| 31 | 31 | | of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, relating to |
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| 32 | 32 | | nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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