Bill Text: MI SB0523 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health; abortion; performance of an abortion after fetus has completed 19 weeks of gestation; require only in a hospital that has neonatal unit. Amends sec. 17515 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17515) & adds sec. 17015a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-23 - Referred To Committee On Health Policy [SB0523 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0523-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 523

 

 

June 23, 2011, Introduced by Senators COLBECK, GREEN, CASWELL, PAPPAGEORGE, EMMONS, BRANDENBURG, HUNTER, ROCCA, JANSEN, ROBERTSON, HILDENBRAND, PAVLOV, MOOLENAAR, JONES, CASPERSON, WALKER, NOFS, KOWALL, BOOHER, PROOS, HANSEN, SCHUITMAKER and MARLEAU and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

by amending section 17515 (MCL 333.17515), as added by 1993 PA 133,

 

and by adding section 17015a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17015a. Subject to section 17015, a physician who

 

determines that the probable gestational age of the fetus of a

 

patient who is a pregnant woman is at 19 or more weeks shall

 

perform an abortion on that patient only in a hospital that has a

 

neonatal unit. Prior to performing an abortion in that hospital,

 

the physician shall establish with the neonatal unit the protocol

 

to be followed consistent with section 3 of the born alive infant

 

protection act, 2002 PA 687, MCL 333.1073, should the abortion

 

result in the live birth of the fetus. As used in this section,

 

"neonatal unit" means a neonatal intensive care unit or other unit

 

specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants.

 

     Sec. 17515. A physician, before performing an abortion on a

 

patient, shall comply with section sections 17015 and 17015a.