85R3127 JG-D     By: Garcia S.B. No. 1189       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the provision of information and other services   relating to emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Chapter 323, Health and Safety Code, is amended   by adding Sections 323.0051 and 323.0052 to read as follows:          Sec. 323.0051.  EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE INFORMATION. (a)   The department shall develop a standard information form for sexual   assault survivors that includes information regarding emergency   contraception.          (b)  Emergency contraception information contained in the   information form must be medically and factually accurate and   unbiased. The department may use appropriate medical organizations   and associations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians   and Gynecologists, as resources in developing the form.          (c)  The information form shall be published in:                (1)  an easily comprehensible form; and                (2)  a typeface large enough to be clearly legible.          (d)  The department shall annually review the information   form to determine if changes to the contents of the form are   necessary.          (e)  A health care facility shall use the information form   developed under this section.          Sec. 323.0052.  EMERGENCY SERVICES RELATING TO EMERGENCY   CONTRACEPTION. In addition to the other services and information   required under this chapter, after a sexual assault survivor   arrives at a health care facility for emergency care following an   alleged sexual assault, the facility shall:                (1)  provide the survivor with the information form   required under Section 323.0051;                (2)  orally communicate to the survivor the information   regarding emergency contraception contained in the form provided   under Subdivision (1);                (3)  if indicated by the history of contact, orally   inform the survivor that the survivor may request and be provided   with emergency contraception at the facility; and                (4)  if not medically contraindicated and if the   survivor agrees to submit to a pregnancy test and that pregnancy   test produces a negative result, provide the survivor with   emergency contraception immediately on request of the survivor.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.