FL H1411

State agencies, local governments, and Medicaid managed care plans are prohibited from expending funds, paying funds to, or initiating/renewing contracts with organizations affiliated with licensed abortion clinics, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, medical necessity, contracts entered before July 1, 2016, and fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursements.

Directors of medical facilities performing abortions must submit monthly reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration including number of abortions, reasons, gestational period, and infants born alive; beginning no later than January 1, 2017, reports must conform to the CDC's United States Standard Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy.

Abortion clinics must either have a written patient transfer agreement with a nearby hospital or require all physicians performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within reasonable proximity; the agency must conduct annual inspections and review at least 50% of patient records generated since the last inspection.

Advertising, offering to purchase, sell, donate, or transfer fetal remains obtained from an abortion is prohibited as a second-degree felony, with an exception for transportation or transfer of remains for lawful disposal; failure to properly dispose of fetal remains is elevated from a second-degree to a first-degree misdemeanor.

For the 2016-2017 fiscal year, 0.5 FTE positions and $59,951 in recurring funds plus $185,213 in nonrecurring funds from the Health Care Trust Fund are appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration for implementation, with a general effective date of July 1, 2016.