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ID H0516
Bill
Status
3/30/2016
Primary Sponsor
State Affairs Committee
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AI Summary
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Department of Health and Welfare must compile and maintain a geographically-arranged list of healthcare providers offering free ultrasounds, updated annually with provider names, addresses, hours, phone numbers, and emails.
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Department must develop and maintain a stable internet website containing informed consent materials including descriptions of fetal development at two-week intervals from week four through week twenty-four, abortion procedures, risks, and available support services.
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Physicians or their agents must inform pregnant patients at least 24 hours before abortion that ultrasound imaging and heart tone monitoring are available, provide website and printed material information about free ultrasound locations, and cannot collect abortion fees until after providing this notification.
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Physicians using ultrasound equipment must inform patients of their right to view the ultrasound image before abortion and offer to provide a physical picture of the ultrasound image if requested.
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Physicians who knowingly fail to comply with ultrasound notification and viewing requirements are subject to professional discipline and civil penalties of $100 per month of non-compliance, but such failure is not a criminal act.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law to provide that the Department of Health and Welfare shall compile a list of providers that perform free ultrasounds and shall state that a patient has the right to obtain a free ultrasound, view an ultrasound image and hear heart tone monitoring and to provide that no abortion shall be performed unless the woman is informed that ultrasound imaging and heart tone monitoring are available.
ABORTION
Last Action
Reported Signed by Governor on March 30, 2016 Session Law Chapter 283 Effective: 07/01/2016
3/30/2016