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ID S1270

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/22/2010

Primary Sponsor

Charles Winder

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds Section 18-611 to Idaho Code establishing freedom of conscience protections for health care professionals regarding abortions, abortifacient drugs, human embryonic stem cell research, human embryo cloning, euthanasia, and assisted suicide

  • Prohibits employers from requiring health care professionals to provide services that violate their religious, moral, or ethical principles, and requires reasonable accommodation upon written employee notification

  • Grants immunity from civil, criminal, and administrative liability to health care professionals and employers for refusing to provide conscience-violating services

  • Protects health care professionals from discrimination based on declining to provide conscience-violating services, unless accommodation creates undue hardship on the employer, in which case the employer must seek reasonable alternatives

  • Prohibits refusal of services based on patient's race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, and preserves broader conscience rights under existing Section 18-612

Legislative Description

Adds to existing law relating to abortion and contraceptives to provide freedom of conscience for health care professionals, to provide immunity from liability, to provide an exception and to prohibit discrimination.

ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTIVES

Last Action

to St Aff

1/25/2010

Committee Referrals

State Affairs1/25/2010

Full Bill Text

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