{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-171a.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171A.002","heading":"APPLICABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.","body":"(a) This chapter does not apply to and a civil action under this chapter may not be brought against:\n(1) a hospital;\n(2) a health care facility licensed, owned, maintained, or operated by this state;\n(3) a health care provider, other than a provider against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);\n(4) a physician, other than a physician against whom a qui tam action may be brought in accordance with Section 171A.101(d)(8);\n(5) a physician group;\n(6) an Internet service provider or the provider's affiliates or subsidiaries;\n(7) an Internet search engine;\n(8) a cloud service provider solely providing access or connection to or from an Internet website or other information or content on the Internet or on a facility, system, or network that is not under the provider's control, including transmission, downloading, intermediate storage, access software, or other services; or\n(9) a person who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, provides, or possesses abortion-inducing drugs in this state solely for one or more of the following purposes:\n(A) treating a medical emergency;\n(B) removing an ectopic pregnancy;\n(C) removing a dead, unborn child whose death was caused by spontaneous abortion; or\n(D) a purpose that does not include performing, inducing, attempting, or assisting an abortion, other than an abortion performed in response to a medical emergency.\n(b) This chapter may not be construed to require the actual performance, inducement, or attempted performance of an abortion in order for a person to bring a civil action authorized by this chapter.\nAdded by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 7), Sec. 2, eff. December 4, 2025.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 171A. ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.171A.htm#171A.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"8225b258486310ce273c8d434d09f16fcbb2422e9b25a45b7d1009fb6eb07609","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-171a.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-171a.051"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}