Texas House lawmakers have unanimously passed a measure to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting abuse, taking it one step closer to becoming law.
Titled SB 1040, the bill aims to bar health insurance providers from sponsoring organ transplants originating in China or any other country known to have been involved in forced organ harvesting, the act of killing a person to procure their organs for sale.
The act passed unanimously through the Texas House on May 22 with 145 lawmakers voting in favor. Having received unanimous approval in the state Senate in April, the bill will get another vote in the state senate on the insertion of a section stating the legislative intent. Once it passes, it will head to the governor’s desk, making it the first anti-forced organ harvesting bill in the United States….