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HI HB866
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Terez Amato
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AI Summary
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Requires the Department of Health to coordinate stockpiling of mifepristone in quantities not less than a one-year supply statewide.
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Appropriates $75,000 from general revenues for fiscal year 2025-2026 to purchase mifepristone.
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Affirms Hawaii's constitutional protections for the right to privacy and bodily autonomy regarding reproductive health care decisions, including abortion access.
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Establishes state policy to protect reproductive rights within Hawaii's boundaries in response to the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that eliminated federal abortion protections.
Legislative Description
Relating To Health Care.
DOH
Last Action
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Reyes Oda voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Matsumoto, Muraoka, Pierick, Shimizu voting no (6) and Representative(s) Cochran, Sayama, Ward excused (3).
2/12/2025