SB105 Summary

• Allows health care providers to refuse to participate in health care services that violate their religious, moral, or ethical conscience when they have previously objected in writing.

• Provides immunity from civil, criminal, or administrative liability for providers who decline such services, except when refusal would immediately endanger a patient's life.

• Prohibits discrimination against health care providers based on their conscience-based refusal to participate in services, including discrimination in hiring, termination, staff privileges, compensation, and licensure.

• Establishes remedies including injunctive relief, reinstatement to prior job position, and back pay for providers who experience discrimination for exercising conscience rights.

• Exempts licensed abortion clinics and professional counselors operating under their respective licensing boards' codes of ethics from the act's provisions.