Tex. Health and Safety Code § 245.010
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 245.010, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 245.010. MINIMUM STANDARDS.
Official statutory text
(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. 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, may perform an abortion.
(c) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2014.
(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.
(b) Only a physician as defined by Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code, may perform an abortion.
(c) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2014.
(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.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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