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.