File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1168
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Haines, Colburn, Ferguson, Dyson, DeGrange, Hafer,
Harris, Hooper, Jacobs, Jimeno, Mooney, Munson, Schrader, Stoltzfus,
and Stone
- Entitled:
-
Women's Health Protection Act
Defining voluntary and informed consent for an abortion; requiring a
physician performing an abortion or a referring physician to provide a
woman seeking an abortion with information about the availability of
materials that contain information about alternatives to abortion
within a specified time frame; exempting women pregnant as the result
of rape from being told about the availability of materials that
contain information about alternatives to abortion; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/1
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/13
- Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 9
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
- Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
- Senator Sandra Schrader, District 13
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ABORTION
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DISCIPLINE
- DISCLOSURE
- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also- specific health occupations
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- PUBLICATIONS -see also- MARYLAND REGISTER
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- SOCIAL SERVICES -see also- WELFARE
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
20-211 ,
20-212 ,
20-213
)
- Health Occupations
- (
14-404 ,
14-404
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
