Florida House Bill 839 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Designates act "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; provides legislative findings; requires physician performing or inducing abortion to first make determination of probable postfertilization age of unborn child; provides exception; prohibits abortion if probable postfertilization age of unborn child is 20 or more weeks; provides exception; provides recordkeeping & reporting requirements for physicians; requires annual report by DOH; provides financial penalties for late reports & civil actions to require reporting; provides for disciplinary action against noncompliant physicians; provides criminal penalties for certain violations; provides that penalty may not be assessed against woman involved in such abortion or attempt; provides for civil actions by certain persons for violations; provides for attorney fees in certain circumstances; requires confidentiality in court proceedings consistent with Rules of Judicial Administration.

Abortion

Rep. Larry Ahern [R]	House Civil Justice Subcommittee	Rep. Daniel Davis [R]	Rep. Mike Horner [R]
Rep. Elizabeth Porter [R]	Sen. Kelli Stargel [R]	Rep. Carlos Trujillo [R]	Rep. Charles Van Zant [R]
Rep. Michael Weinstein [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Health and Human Services Committee
2012-02-02		Now in Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 451
2012-02-01		CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time -HJ 314
2012-02-01		Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2012-01-31		CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 8 NAYS 5 -HJ 320
2012-01-27		On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 01/31/12, 8:00 am, 404 HOB
2012-01-25		Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee -HJ 284
2012-01-24		Favorable by Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; YEAS 9 NAYS 5 -HJ 284
2012-01-20		On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee, 01/24/12, 2:00 pm, Webster Hall
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 82
2011-12-12		Referred to Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; Civil Justice Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 82
2011-12-01		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
390	011		Amended Code	See Bill Text
390	0111		Amended Code	See Bill Text
765	113		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/839
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0839/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0839/BillText/c1/PDF