Loading chat...

MN SF1

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/4/2023

Primary Sponsor

Jen McEwen

Click for details

Origin

Senate

93rd Legislature 2023-2024

AI Summary

  • Establishes a fundamental right to reproductive health care under Minnesota law, including the right to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health and to use or refuse reproductive health care.

  • Defines reproductive health care to include contraception, sterilization, preconception care, maternity care, abortion care, family planning and fertility services, and counseling regarding reproductive health.

  • Grants every individual who becomes pregnant the fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth, or to obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise this right.

  • Recognizes the fundamental right to reproductive freedom as derived from Minnesota Constitution principles of individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality.

  • Prohibits local units of government from regulating an individual's ability to exercise reproductive rights in a manner more restrictive than state law permits, effective the day following final enactment.

Legislative Description

Fundamental right to reproductive health establishment

Last Action

Rule 45; subst. General Orders HF1, SF indefinitely postponed

1/26/2023

Committee Referrals

Finance1/25/2023
Rules and Administration1/23/2023
Judiciary and Public Safety1/17/2023
State and Local Government and Veterans1/11/2023
Health and Human Services1/4/2023

Full Bill Text

No bill text available