Virginia House Bill 2491 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Abortion; eliminate certain requirements. Eliminates the requirement that an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to the third trimester be performed in a hospital. The bill eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill does not change the requirement that a woman's informed written consent be first obtained. The bill eliminates the requirement that two other physicians certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman's death or impairment of her mental or physical health, as well as the need to find that any such impairment to the woman's health would be substantial and irremediable. The bill also removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.

Abortion; eliminate certain requirements.

Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]
Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]
Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Del. Debra Rodman [D]
Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Cheryl Turpin [D]	Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]	Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg [D]

2019-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2019-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2019-01-24	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #4
2019-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103112D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	77	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	73	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	74	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	76	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	127	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2491
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2491+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0804V0002+HB2491