79(R) SB113 Introduced - Bill Text
79R648 JTS-D By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 113A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
relating to prohibiting certain health care providers from promoting infant formula.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 165, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 165.005 to read as follows:
Sec. 165.005. INFANT FORMULA PROMOTION PROHIBITION.
(a) A hospital, birthing center, physician, or other health care provider that provides services to mothers and infants may not promote the use of infant formula, including by:
(1) distributing without charge an infant formula or any item containing the name of an infant formula; and
(2) advertising an infant formula.
(b) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
Oh, for the love of god! This woman (Senator Leticia Van de Putte: District 26) aught to be taken out and shot. Of all the useless, wasted, dumbass things that could be proposed into law, this one has got to take the cake . . . excuse me, this one takes the breast.
posted by Seitherin | 3/01/2005 05:54:00 AM 
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That is just sooooo unbelievable! That cannot be the biggest worry that the State of Texas has at the moment, can it?
Well, of course it is. Don't you know that all the women of child bearing years in Texas have given up breast feeding their children because they saw adverts for formula in their doctors' offices? It's a rampant conspiracy to keep women from staying barefoot and pregnant and it needs to be stamped out!
(It is so unfortunate I cannot write as sarcastically as I can speak. If you could only hear the way that sounded in my head as I wrote it . . .)
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