A bill that clarifies the medical exceptions to the state of Texas' near-abortion ban could be headed to the governor's desk as early as Thursday. It comes as lawmakers in the Texas House gave preliminary passage of the legislation Wednesday afternoon.

That bill passed the Texas Senate in mid-April. An amended version passed the Texas House, with a narrower margin than the abortion clarification bill. The clarification legislation received widespread support from a variety of lawmakers and advocacy groups, to a degree that’s unusual for an abortion-related bill.

Several states with near-total abortion bans have introduced legislation seeking to make their medical exceptions clearer.

On Thursday, the House passed SB 33, filed by state Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, which bans taxpayer money from being used to assist with travel outside of Texas to have an abortion. The bill passed the House by a vote of 87-57. It passed the Senate in April by a vote of 22-9.

The Texas House on Thursday passed Senate Bill 33, which aims to prevent local governments from using tax money to support people who leave the state to find abortion care. The bill will need final approval from the state Senate before heading to Gov.

According to a first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis of state hospital discharge data, while the rates of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston were far more likely to get gravely ill than those in Dallas.

The bill contains many provisions legal experts say are likely unconstitutional, including one that says it can’t be challenged in state court.

Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.