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AUSTIN — The House voted Wednesday to deny state funds to public hospitals that perform elective abortions or do business with entities that provide “abortion-related services.”

The amendment added by Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, to a comprehensive health care savings bill would deny funding to any hospital district that uses locally generated taxes to help pay for abortions, except those required in medical emergencies.

The taxpayer-supported hospitals also would lose state funding if they “contract or affiliate with other organizations, agencies or entities that provide or refer for abortion or abortion-related services.”

The provision was one of two anti-abortion measures tacked on to a big health care bill that is needed to help balance the two-year state budget. The other, by Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, would require women and their doctors to fill out and submit to the state detailed questionnaires about their abortions.

Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond, author of the main bill, said the Zedler amendment was designed to help “generate lawsuits” against abortion providers.

But Zerwas, who is an anesthesiologist and a hospital administrator, voted for the proposal.

During the regular session, the Legislature passed several anti-abortion bills and approved various budget provisions designed to defund Planned Parenthood.