Oregon Senate Bill 586 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Failed on June 26 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-06-26 - 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 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. Tim Knopp [R]	Sen. Kim Thatcher [R]	Rep. Duane Stark [R]	Sen. Lynn Findley [R]
Sen. Fred Girod [R]	Sen. Bill Hansell [R]	Sen. Dennis Linthicum [R]	Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis [R]
Rep. Gary Leif [R]	Rep. Raquel Moore-Green [R]	Rep. Mike Nearman [R]	Rep. Mark Owens [R]
Rep. Werner Reschke [R]	Rep. Gregory Smith [R]

2021-06-10 - Senate - Senate Withdraw from Committee (Y: 11 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-06-26	Senate	In committee upon adjournment.
2021-06-10	Senate	Motion to withdraw from committee on <> failed. Ayes, 11; Nays, 18--Beyer, Burdick, Dembrow, Frederick, Gelser, Golden, Gorsek, Jama, Johnson, Lieber, Manning Jr, Patterson, President Courtney, Prozanski, Riley, Steiner Hayward, Taylor, Wagner; Excused, 1--Heard.
2021-01-19	Senate	Referred to Health Care.
2021-01-11	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/Overview/SB586
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB586/Introduced
Roll Call	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/MeasureVotes?id=529389