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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 245.010. Minimum Standards

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The rules must contain minimum standards to protect the health and safety of a patient of an abortion facility and must contain provisions requiring compliance with the requirements of Subchapter B, Chapter 171.  1  On and after September 1, 2014, the minimum standards for an abortion facility must be equivalent to the minimum standards adopted under Section 243.010 for ambulatory surgical centers.

(b) Only a physician as defined by Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code,  2 may perform an abortion.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 1 (H.B. 2), § 8.

(d) This section does not authorize the executive commissioner to:

(1) establish the qualifications of a licensed practitioner;  or

(2) permit a person to provide health care services who is not authorized to provide those services under other laws of this state.

1  V.T.C.A., Health & Safety Code § 171.011 et seq.
2  V.T.C.A., Occupations Code § 151.001 et seq.
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