Bill Text: MI HB4684 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes: abortion; publication or sale of items used to prevent conception or produce miscarriage or abortion; prohibit. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 40a. TIE BAR WITH: HJR C'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-30 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/25/2023 [HB4684 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4684-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4684
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
(MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 40a.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 40a. The publication or sale within this state of any circular, pamphlet, or book containing recipes or prescriptions in indecent or obscene language intended to produce abortion is prohibited. For each copy of a circular, pamphlet, or other book containing such prohibited recipes or prescriptions, the publisher and seller are each guilty of a misdemeanor.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution ____ or House Joint Resolution C (request no. 03057'23) of the 102nd Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.
