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| | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
| | AN ACT |
| | relating to eliminating the wrongful birth cause of action. |
| | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
| | SECTION 1. Title 4, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is |
| | amended by adding Chapter 71A to read as follows: |
| | CHAPTER 71A. PROHIBITED CAUSES OF ACTION |
| | Sec. 71A.001. WRONGFUL BIRTH. A cause of action may not |
| | arise, and damages may not be awarded, on behalf of any person, |
| | based on the claim that but for the act or omission of another, a |
| | person would not have been permitted to have been born alive but |
| | would have been aborted. |
| | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
| | to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of |
| | this Act. A cause of action that accrues before the effective date |
| | of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the cause of action |
| | immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is |
| | continued in effect for that purpose. |
| | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |