Oregon Senate Bill 1042 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 27-0)
Status: Failed on June 30 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion. Requires health care practitioner to ensure child born alive is transported to hospital. Creates crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows specified person to bring civil action for damages and equitable relief against health care practitioner for failure to exercise proper standard of care. Directs court to award attorney fees to prevailing plaintiff. Allows court to order identity or personally identifiable information of specified person protected from disclosure.

Relating to abortion.

Sen. Dennis Linthicum [R]	Sen. Tim Knopp [R]	Sen. Dallas Heard [R]	Rep. Duane Stark [R]
Sen. Herman Baertschiger [R]	Sen. Cliff Bentz [R]	Sen. Brian Boquist [R]	Sen. Fred Girod [R]
Sen. Bill Hansell [R]	Sen. Kim Thatcher [R]	Sen. Chuck Thomsen [R]	Rep. Gregory Barreto [R]
Sen. Daniel Bonham [R]	Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis [R]	Rep. Christine Drazan [R]	Rep. Gary Leif [R]
Rep. Rick Lewis [R]	Rep. Mike Nearman [R]	Rep. Ronald Noble [R]	Rep. Bill Post [R]
Rep. Werner Reschke [R]	Sen. David Smith [R]	Rep. Gregory Smith [R]	Rep. Sherrie Sprenger [R]
Rep. Kimberly Wallan [R]	Rep. Carl Wilson [R]	Rep. Joseph Zika [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-30	Senate	In committee upon adjournment.
2019-04-02	Senate	Referred to Rules.
2019-04-01	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/SB1042
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1042/Introduced