Text of TX HB 4710 (2025)

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.