HB4710 - Relating to traveling with a child to facilitate the provision of certain gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures or treatments to that child; creating a criminal offense.

  89R15349 AJZ-D     By: Hopper H.B. No. 4710       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to traveling with a child to facilitate the provision of   certain gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures or   treatments to that child; creating a criminal offense.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter X, Chapter 161, Health and Safety   Code, as added by Chapter 335 (S.B. 14), Acts of the 88th   Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is amended by adding Section   161.707 to read as follows:           Sec.   161.707.     CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an   offense if the person travels from this state to a location outside   this state with a child who is a resident of this state to   facilitate the child's ability to receive a procedure or treatment   that would otherwise be prohibited by Section 161.702 if the   procedure or treatment occurred in this state.           (b)     It is an exception to the application of this section   that the conduct occurred solely to enable the child to receive a   procedure or treatment that is authorized under Section 161.703.           (c)     An offense under this section is a felony of the first   degree.          SECTION 2.  It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular   Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act to Subchapter X,   Chapter 161, Health and Safety Code, be harmonized with another Act   of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, relating to   nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.