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ND HB1478

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

Karla Hanson

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Origin

House of Representatives

69th Legislative Assembly

AI Summary

  • Creates a new chapter in North Dakota Century Code establishing rights to access, provide, cover, and manufacture contraceptives, including oral contraceptives, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, condoms, and other FDA-approved methods

  • Prohibits the state or political subdivisions from enacting laws, rules, or policies that prohibit, limit, delay, or impede access to contraceptives or contraceptive information

  • Explicitly excludes mifepristone and misoprostol (abortion-causing drugs) from the definition of contraceptives protected under this chapter

  • Allows health care providers to decline providing contraceptives based on moral or religious objections, consistent with federal law

  • Authorizes civil actions by the attorney general or adversely affected individuals against government entities violating the chapter, with courts empowered to award injunctive relief, court costs, and attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs

Legislative Description

Contraceptive health care rights; and to provide a penalty.

Last Action

Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 27 nays 66

2/12/2025

Committee Referrals

Human Services1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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