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AL SB281
Bill
Status
5/24/2011
Primary Sponsor
J.T. Waggoner
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AI Summary
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Prohibits health insurance contracts, plans, and policies issued in Alabama from covering elective abortions except through optional riders requiring additional premium payments.
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Defines "elective abortion" as any abortion other than spontaneous abortion or abortion necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.
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Applies to health insurers, nonprofit hospital and health service corporations, group and blanket health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and self-insured employers.
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Does not create or recognize a right to abortion and does not make unlawful any abortion that is currently unlawful in Alabama.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
Abortions, health insurance coverage of elective abortions, prohibited, exceptions, Abortion Coverage Prohibition Act
Abortion
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
5/24/2011