HB 2276 Summary

• Establishes the "Whole Woman's Health Funding Priorities Act" to prioritize state public funding for family planning and reproductive health services to primary and preventive care providers rather than specialized providers.

• Creates a funding priority hierarchy requiring the State Department of Health to distribute family planning service funds first to public entities, then to nonpublic hospitals and federally qualified health centers, then rural health clinics, and finally other nonpublic primary care providers.

• Prohibits the State Department of Health from entering into contracts or making grants to any entity that performs non-federally qualified abortions or operates facilities where such abortions are performed.

• Authorizes the Attorney General and eligible entities receiving public funds to enforce the act through legal action, with prevailing plaintiffs entitled to attorney fees; allows the Legislature to intervene in cases challenging the law's constitutionality.

• Voids any appropriations made in violation of the act as of November 1, 2012, with funds reallocated to eligible entities; effective date is November 1, 2012.