What is, I maintain, ludicrous, is having to ask permission of the state about things that, by definition, were never its business from the start. Interestingly enough, this, what seems to me rather obvious common sense, has been received extraordinarily well by the Texas Legislature. It's just something obvious that was missed, in my opinion, in the switch from fault-based scenarios (which quite logically trip parens patriae) and No Fault (which obviously don't trip parens patriae since there's no allegation of fault).