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IN SB0313
Bill
Status
2/3/2016
Primary Sponsor
Travis Holdman
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AI Summary
SB 313 Summary
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State Department of Health must develop and distribute a perinatal hospice brochure and maintain a list of perinatal hospice providers and programs for pregnant women diagnosed with lethal fetal anomalies.
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Physicians must inform pregnant women considering abortion due to lethal fetal anomaly diagnosis about perinatal hospice services and provide written materials at least 18 hours before the procedure.
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Prohibits abortion if the person knows the pregnant woman is seeking it solely because of fetus race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of Down syndrome or other disability; violations subject to disciplinary sanctions and civil liability for wrongful death.
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Requires abortion reporting forms to include fetus gender (if detectable) and medical indication by diagnosis code; defines "early pre-viability termination" reporting requirements.
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Criminalizes unlawful acquisition, sale, or transfer of fetal tissue as Level 5 felonies, with exception for written parental consent for research or transplantation purposes.
Legislative Description
Abortion matters. Requires the state department of health to develop certain information concerning perinatal hospice care. Requires physicians to provide information about perinatal hospice care to a pregnant woman who is considering an abortion because the unborn child has been diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly. Requires documentation as a matter of informed consent to an abortion that the pregnant woman received the required information about perinatal hospice care. Provides that the gender of the fetus and the medical indication by diagnosis code for the fetus and the mother must be reported on the pregnancy termination form for an early
Last Action
Representative Rhoads added as cosponsor
2/18/2016