Monitoring the SessionSB 1159
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to the prohibited report or disclosure of certain health information by physicians and other health care providers.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Covers a miscarriage or an abortion, had or suspected.
The bill bars doctors and other health care providers from telling police about a patient who had, or is suspected of having had, a miscarriage or an abortion. It touches physicians, other health care providers, their patients, and peace officers or law enforcement agencies. A provider who makes such a report would be treated as violating the state medical privacy chapter and could face that chapter's enforcement, including licensing discipline, starting September 1, 2025.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 1637 by Sen. LaMantia (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.DO-OVER. Reworked text of a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 1637 by Sen. LaMantia (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Feb 7, 2025 and referred to the Senate Health & Human Services committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB1159 · 2025-02-07
relating to the prohibited report or disclosure of certain health information by physicians and other health care providers.
Covers a miscarriage or an abortion, had or suspected.
The bill bars doctors and other health care providers from telling police about a patient who had, or is suspected of having had, a miscarriage or an abortion. It touches physicians, other health care providers, their patients, and peace officers or law enforcement agencies. A provider who makes such a report would be treated as violating the state medical privacy chapter and could face that chapter's enforcement, including licensing discipline, starting September 1, 2025.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Sen. LaMantia, different lead author · Died in committee · reworked
Introduced textLast action, Mar 16, 2023: Referred to State Affairs
Relating to the prohibited report or disclosure by health care providers of certain health information.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Feb 7, 2025
02/28/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · Health & Human Services · Final status: Died in committee
Abortion
Law Enforcement
Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations
PHYSICIANS
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
The text as introduced · 253 words
89R10348 MPF-D By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 1159 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the prohibited report or disclosure of certain health information by physicians and other health care providers. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Chapter 171A to read as follows: CHAPTER 171A. PROHIBITED REPORT OR DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN HEALTH INFORMATION Sec. 171A.001. PROHIBITED REPORT OR DISCLOSURE BY PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. Notwithstanding any other law, a physician or other health care provider who provides health care services to a patient who experienced a miscarriage or obtained an abortion or who the physician or provider suspects may have experienced a miscarriage or obtained an abortion is prohibited from reporting or disclosing that information to a peace officer or law enforcement agency. Sec. 171A.002. ENFORCEMENT. A physician's or other health care provider's report or disclosure of information prohibited under Section 171A.001 constitutes a violation of Chapter 181 and the physician or provider is subject to enforcement actions under Subchapter E of that chapter, including disciplinary action by the appropriate licensing authority. Sec. 171A.003. RULES. The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement this chapter. SECTION 2. Chapter 171A, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies only to the report or disclosure of information described by that chapter that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.