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North Carolina 72-Hour Waiting Period Bill (HB 465)
This law was last updated on Apr 20, 2015
Number
HB 465
Status
Current
Proposed
Apr 1, 2015
Sponsors
Co-sponsors: 39
Primary Sponsors: 3
Total Sponsors: 42
Full Bill Text
HB 465 imposes a 72-hour waiting period for abortion and physician reporting requirements.
A provision that would have prohibited medical schools at UNC-Chapel Hill and East Carolina University from requiring performance of abortion in connection with an employee’s official duties was stripped from the final version of the bill.
Physician Reporting Requirements
HB 465 would create physician reporting requirements. The bill would require specific information to be recorded and reported to the Department of Health and Human Services after the sixteenth week of pregnancy and after the twentieth week of pregnancy.
Informed Consent/Waiting Period
The bill amends G.S. 90-21.82, North Carolina’s informed consent law, to require a 72-hour waiting period before performance of an abortion. Previously, the law required a 24-hour waiting period.
STATUS
Signed into law by Gov. McCrory on June 5, 2015.
The waiting period provision goes into effect on October 1, 2015.
The physician reporting requirement goes into effect on January 1, 2016.
People
Co-sponsor
- Patricia McElraft
- Larry Arp
- James Bishop
- Robert Bryan
- James Dixon
- Joshua Dobson
- Michael Hager
- Dwight Horn
- Patricia Hurley
- Christopher Millis
- George Robinson
- Phillip Shepard
- Robert Steinburg
- Samuel Watford
- Roger West
- James Whitmire
- Lawrence Yarborough
- John A. Torbett
- Sarah Stevens
- Paul Stam
- Michael Speciale
- Jason Saine
- Dennis Riddell
- Michele D. Presnell
- Larry G. Pittman
- Allen McNeill
- Jonathan C. Jordan
- Earl Jones
- Linda P. Johnson
- Kelly E. Hastings
- Carl Ford
- Jeffrey Elmore
- Debra Conrad
- George G. Cleveland
- Justin P. Burr
- Rayne Brown
- Mark Brody
- John R. Bell, IV
- Marilyn Avila
Primary Sponsor
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