Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 203.003 - Findings
The legislature finds:
(1) a parent has the responsibility and right to give birth where and with whom the parent chooses;(2) childbirth is a natural process of the human body and not a disease; and(3) midwifery has been practiced in this state since the days of the Republic.
Tex. Occ. Code § 203.003
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1999.