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