By: Farrar	H.B. No. 4260

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the regulation of men's health and safety; creating a
	civil penalty for unregulated masturbatory emissions.
	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 173 to read as follows:
	Sec. 173.001.  SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be called the
	Man's Right to Know Act.
	Sec. 173.002.  PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to
	express the state's interest in promoting men's health; ensure
	Texas men experience safe and healthy elective vasectomies, Viagra
	utilizations, colonoscopies procedures, and men's health
	experiences; ensure a doctor's right to invoke their personal,
	moralistic, or religious beliefs in refusing to perform an elective
	vasectomy or prescribe Viagra; and promote fully-abstinent sexual
	relations or occasional masturbatory emissions inside health care
	and medical facilities, as a means of the healthiest way to ensure
	men's health.
	Sec. 173.003.  INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS. The Department of
	State Health Services shall create and distribute informational
	materials containing information reflecting the requirements and
	legislative intent in this Chapter. The Department shall entitle
	the information materials "A Man's Right to Know." The Department
	shall establish rules and procedures for the creation and
	distribution of the informational materials that exactly follow the
	rules and procedures of the informational booklet entitled "A
	Woman's Right To Know." The booklet will contain scientific
	information that must be verified and supported by research that is
	recognized as medically accurate, objective, and complete by the
	National Institutes of Health and affiliated organizations. The
	booklet must contain medical information related to the benefits
	and concerns of a man seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or a
	colonoscopy. The booklet must contain artistic illustrations of
	each procedure.
	Sec. 173.004.  PROHIBITED CAUSES OF ACTION. A cause of
	action may not arise, and damages may not be awarded, on behalf of
	any person based on the claim their doctor refused to perform a
	vasectomy procedure, prescribe Viagra, perform a colonoscopy, or
	withheld any other men's health procedure due to their personal,
	moralistic, or religious beliefs.  This section may not be
	construed to eliminate any duty of a physician or other health care
	practitioner under any other applicable law.
	Sec. 173.005.  VIEWING PRINTED MATERIALS; HEARING VERBAL
	EXPLANATION. An attending physician must verbally review the
	informational booklet entitled "A Man's Right To Know" with every
	male patient seeking a vasectomy, Viagra prescription, or
	colonoscopy.
	Sec. 173.006.  INFORMED CONSENT REQUIRED. A person may not
	perform an elective vasectomy, prescribe Viagra, or perform a
	colonoscopy procedure without the voluntary and informed consent of
	the man on whom the elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure is
	to be performed, or Viagra is to be prescribed.
	Sec. 173.007.  VOLUNTARY AND INFORMED CONSENT. Consent to
	an elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or a prescription
	of Viagra is voluntary and informed only if at least 24 hours have
	passed since the initial health care consultation for the procedure
	or prescription.
	Sec. 173.008.  HOSPITAL MASTURBATORY ASSISTANCE REGISTRY.
	The Department must establish and maintain a registry of private
	nonprofit organizations and hospitals that register with the
	department to provide fully-abstinent encouragement counseling,
	supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for
	the semen. Costs will be absorbed by the hospital or contributing
	private nonprofits.
	Sec. 173.009.  SONOGRAM ELECTION. An attending physician
	must administer a medically-unnecessary digital rectal exam and
	magnetic resonance imagining of the rectum before administering an
	elective vasectomy or colonoscopy procedure, or prescribing
	Viagra. This digital rectal exam and rectal sonogram must take
	place during the initial health care consultation before an
	elective vasectomy is performed, a prescription is given for
	Viagra, or a colonoscopy is performed.
	Sec. 173.010.  FINES RELATED TO MASTURBATORY EMISSIONS.
	Masturbatory emissions created in health or medical facilities will
	be stored for the purposes of conception for a current or future
	wife.
	(a)  Emissions outside of a woman's vagina, or created
	outside of a health or medical facility, will be charged a $100
	civil penalty for each emission, and will be considered an act
	against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of
	life.
	(b)  Penalties collected under this section will be
	deposited in a fund established by the Department of Family and
	Protective Services for the purpose of the care and services
	provided to children in the conservatorship of the Department of
	Family Protective Services in order to assist in the assertion of
	the importance of the sanctity of life.
	SECTION 2.  (a) By not later than December 1, 2017, the
	Department of State Health Services shall make the materials
	required in this Chapter available for distribution.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.