SB46 - Health Care Rights of Conscience Act

• Grants health care providers, institutions, and payers the right to decline participation in health care services that violate their conscience, including abortion, artificial birth control, artificial insemination, assisted reproduction, human cloning, euthanasia, human embryonic stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide.

• Provides immunity from civil, criminal, or administrative liability for refusing to provide or participate in conscience-violating health care services.

• Prohibits discrimination against health care providers who decline to participate, including termination, transfer, refusal of staff privileges, shift reassignment, wage or benefits reduction, and denial of board certification or residency training.

• Requires health care institutions to provide a patient consent form before admission stating they reserve the right to decline services that violate their conscience to avoid liability.

• Allows individuals and entities injured by violations to bring injunctive relief actions and recover court costs, reasonable attorney's fees, reinstatement to prior position, and back pay; becomes effective three months after Governor's approval.