Bill Text: MN SF1921 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Abortion facility licensure requirements
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 30-9)
Status: (Vetoed) 2012-04-26 - Governor veto [SF1921 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF1921-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Abortion facility licensure requirements
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 30-9)
Status: (Vetoed) 2012-04-26 - Governor veto [SF1921 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF1921-Introduced.html
1.2relating to health; requiring licensure of certain facilities that perform abortions;
1.3proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. [145.479] LICENSURE OF CERTAIN FACILITIES THAT PERFORM
1.6ABORTIONS.
1.7 Subdivision 1. License required for facilities that perform ten or more abortions
1.8per month. A clinic, health center, or other facility in which the pregnancies of ten or
1.9more women known to be pregnant are willfully terminated or aborted each month,
1.10including nonsurgical abortions, shall be licensed by the commissioner of health. The
1.11commissioner of health shall adopt rules necessary for licensure under this section.
1.12 Subd. 2. Inspections; data privacy. The commissioner of health shall perform
1.13inspections and investigations as deemed necessary. Information received by the
1.14commissioner through filed reports, inspections, or as otherwise authorized under this
1.15section is private data on individuals according to section 13.02, subdivision 12, and must
1.16not be disclosed publicly in such manner as to identify individual patients, except to
1.17another state agency for purposes of investigation of professional or business practices in
1.18a licensed abortion facility. Any state agency that receives such data must not disclose
1.19individual patient information publicly.
1.20 Subd. 3. No notice required for inspection. Every clinic, health center, or other
1.21facility licensed under this section, and any other premise proposed to be conducted as a
1.22facility by an applicant for a license, shall be open at all reasonable times to inspection
1.23authorized in writing by the commissioner of health. No notice need be given to any
1.24person prior to any inspection.
2.1 Subd. 4. Severability. If any one or more provision, section, subdivision, sentence,
2.2clause, phrase, or word of this section or the application of it to any person or circumstance
2.3is found to be unconstitutional, it is declared to be severable and the balance of this section
2.4shall remain effective notwithstanding such unconstitutionality. The legislature intends
2.5that it would have passed this section, and each provision, section, subdivision, sentence,
2.6clause, phrase, or word, regardless of the fact that any one provision, section, subdivision,
2.7sentence, clause, phrase, or word is declared unconstitutional.
1.3proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. [145.479] LICENSURE OF CERTAIN FACILITIES THAT PERFORM
1.6ABORTIONS.
1.7 Subdivision 1. License required for facilities that perform ten or more abortions
1.8per month. A clinic, health center, or other facility in which the pregnancies of ten or
1.9more women known to be pregnant are willfully terminated or aborted each month,
1.10including nonsurgical abortions, shall be licensed by the commissioner of health. The
1.11commissioner of health shall adopt rules necessary for licensure under this section.
1.12 Subd. 2. Inspections; data privacy. The commissioner of health shall perform
1.13inspections and investigations as deemed necessary. Information received by the
1.14commissioner through filed reports, inspections, or as otherwise authorized under this
1.15section is private data on individuals according to section 13.02, subdivision 12, and must
1.16not be disclosed publicly in such manner as to identify individual patients, except to
1.17another state agency for purposes of investigation of professional or business practices in
1.18a licensed abortion facility. Any state agency that receives such data must not disclose
1.19individual patient information publicly.
1.20 Subd. 3. No notice required for inspection. Every clinic, health center, or other
1.21facility licensed under this section, and any other premise proposed to be conducted as a
1.22facility by an applicant for a license, shall be open at all reasonable times to inspection
1.23authorized in writing by the commissioner of health. No notice need be given to any
1.24person prior to any inspection.
2.1 Subd. 4. Severability. If any one or more provision, section, subdivision, sentence,
2.2clause, phrase, or word of this section or the application of it to any person or circumstance
2.3is found to be unconstitutional, it is declared to be severable and the balance of this section
2.4shall remain effective notwithstanding such unconstitutionality. The legislature intends
2.5that it would have passed this section, and each provision, section, subdivision, sentence,
2.6clause, phrase, or word, regardless of the fact that any one provision, section, subdivision,
2.7sentence, clause, phrase, or word is declared unconstitutional.
