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.