Virginia House Bill 2278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-07 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Abortion; when lawful; 15-week gestational age; exceptions; penalty. Makes it a Class 4 felony for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy or aid or assist in the termination of a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or causing a miscarriage on any woman if the physician determines using best clinical judgment that the gestational age of the unborn child is more than 15 weeks, unless (i) the physician determines, based upon best clinical judgment, that the continuation of the pregnancy will result in the death of the woman or substantially and irreversibly impair one or more of such woman's major bodily functions, not including psychological or emotional conditions, or (ii) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. The bill further requires that any abortion procedure performed after it is determined that the unborn child's gestational age is more than 15 weeks is required to be performed in a hospital licensed by the State Department of Health or operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. The bill provides that its provisions shall be known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

Abortion; when lawful, 15-week gestational age, exceptions, penalty.

Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. John Avoli [R]	Del. James Edmunds [R]	Del. Dave LaRock [R]
Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Phillip Scott [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Bill Wiley [R]
Del. Wren Williams [R]	Del. Thomas Wright [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-07	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2023-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2023-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104306D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	71	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	72	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	73	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	74	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	74.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	75	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	76	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	92.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2278
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2278+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB2278F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB2278F122+PDF