Texas Occupations Code

§ 203.003 — FINDINGS

OC § 203.003Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part C. OTHER PROFESSIONS PERFORMING MEDICAL PROCEDURES · Ch. 203. MIDWIVES · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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.

Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.