In the 87th Legislative Session, the Texas Campaign will advocate to increase access to information and health care in support of reproductive health for Texas teens.
Learn more about our 2021 legislative priorities here.
Important Resources:
In the 87th Legislative Session, the Texas Campaign will advocate to increase access to information and health care in support of reproductive health for Texas teens.
Learn more about our 2021 legislative priorities here.
Important Resources:
Policy priorities of the Texas Campaign for the 87th Legislative session center on increasing access to the healthcare and information youth need to ensure healthy futures and healthy relationships. The 87th regular legislative session runs from January – May, 2021.
Top Priorities:
Bills supporting youth in foster care
Other Reproductive Health Bills
Sex Education
Policy priorities of the Texas Campaign for the 86th Legislative session center on fiscally sound ways to ensure that young people in Texas have access to the information and health care needed to prevent unintended pregnancy. The 86th regular legislative session runs from January – May, 2019.
Bills supported by the Texas Campaign include:
Last updated: May 30, 2017
Throughout the 86th Legislative Session, the Texas Campaign advocated for policies that would reduce rates of unintended pregnancy among Texas youth. In a session that largely focused on school finance and property tax, we nevertheless saw some victories, including improved funding for reproductive health programs, improved notification processes in the Healthy Texas Women program, and the defeat of a harmful bill that would have put significant burdens on schools implementing sex education. Additionally, we supported progress on bills that would have added contraception to the Children’s Health Insurance Program, streamlined enrollment into reproductive health programs for young adults, and allowed teen parents to consent to contraception. While these bills didn’t ultimately pass into law, we secured bipartisan support at the committee or House level.
To learn more about the Texas Campaign’s work in the 86th Legislative session, download our Legislative Priorities document.
Bills supported by the Texas Campaign
Bills opposed by the Texas Campaign
HB 4206 by Rep. Valoree Swanson/SB1310 by Sen. Bob Hall: Relating to elimination of the requirement that a school district establish a local school health advisory council (SHAC). (FAILED TO PASS)
Previous Legislative Sessions
Bills supported by The Texas Campaign:
House Bill 78 would require instruction in sex education classes to be evidence-based and medically accurate and include age-appropriate information on pregnancy and disease prevention methods approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (FAILED TO PASS)
House Bill 90 would lower the age requirement to be eligible for the Texas Women’s Health Program from 18 to 15. (FAILED TO PASS)
House Bill 467 removes language indicating that sexual activity before marriage causes psychological and physical harm from statute related to HIV/AIDS prevention programs in the state’s Health and Safety Code. (FAILED TO PASS)
House Bill 468 would allow some minors to be able to consent to medical treatment related to contraception, other than abortion or emergency contraception. (FAILED TO PASS)
Senate Bill 88 would require the public school health education curriculum to include information on methods of contraception and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in addition to promoting abstinence. (FAILED TO PASS)
Senate Bill 297 would require the public school health education curriculum to be evidence-based. (FAILED TO PASS)
Senate Bill 300 would require public school districts to inform parents if the district is teaching abstinence-only or is including information on contraception in its sex education curriculum. (FAILED TO PASS)
Senate Bill 468 would allow some minors to be able to consent to medical treatment related to contraception, other than abortion or emergency contraception. (FAILED TO PASS)
Bills not supported by The Texas Campaign:
House Bill 205 and Senate Bill 477 would bar an entity or individual that performs abortions or an affiliate of an entity or individual that performs abortions from providing sex education information to public schools. (FAILED TO PASS)