A bipartisan measure has unanimously passed the Texas Senate as lawmakers advance steps to prevent their state from aiding in the Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting.
Senate Bill 1040, with companion House Bill 2025, would bar health benefit plans from paying for organ transplants originating in a country “where the risk is extremely high that organs will have come from this illicit source,” said the bill’s primary sponsor, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, in a speech.
It was passed on April 6 with approval from all 31 delegates.
The primary goal of the bill is to “prevent Texans from unknowingly becoming complicit in forced organ harvesting,” said Kolkhorst, who recalled being approached by a county court at law judge the prior weekend, who expressed shock after learning about the issue from her Facebook posts….