
Culture & Conversation Abortion
This law was last updated on Oct 20, 2017
This law is Anti–Choice
HB 6
Failed to Pass
Jun 12, 2017
Primary Sponsors: 1
Total Sponsors: 1
HB 6 would amend laws relating to abortion facilities and medication abortion.
Medication Abortion
The bill would allow the Department of Health and Senior Services to adopt rules governing complication plans to ensure patients undergoing abortions induced by drugs or chemicals have access to safe and reliable care. Any rule, regulation, or standard adopted by the department must, at a minimum, require a follow-up visit.
Definitions
The bill would define certain terms as they relate to abortion services.
The bill would define “qualified professional” to mean:
[…]the physician who referred the woman to the physician who is to perform the abortion or to the advanced practice registered nurse in a collaborative practice arrangement with the physician performing the abortion.
The bill would define “abortion facility” to mean:
[…]any establishment operated for the purpose of performing or inducing any second- or third-trimester abortions or five or more first-trimester abortions and which does not provide accommodations for patients to stay more than 23 hours within the establishment.
TRAP
The bill would amend current Missouri law regulating health-care providers and ambulatory surgical centers to also include abortion facilities.
The bill allows the department to adopt separate rules to apply to ambulatory surgical centers and to apply to abortion facilities. Any rule that applies to an abortion facility shall, at minimum, be equal to any physical requirement of an ambulatory surgical center.
The bill would require an abortion facility to provide affirmative evidence that each person authorized to perform abortions is a physician currently licensed to practice in Missouri in order to receive a license to operate the facility.
The bill would require the department to make an unannounced on-site inspection of any abortion facility at least annually. The inspection must include:
Attorney General
The bill would grant the Attorney General power to have concurrent original jurisdiction throughout the state for actions for a violation of any:
Interference with Medical Assistance
The bill would create the offense of interference with medical assistance. A person commits the offense of interference with medical assistance if he or she, while working as an employee of an abortion facility:
An offense of interference with medical assistance would be a class A misdemeanor.
Related Legislation
Similar to HB 3.
Similar to the attorney general provision found in SB 1.
STATUS
This bill was introduced during the 2017 special session.
Primary Sponsor