Virginia House Bill 983 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Provision of abortion; abortion on the basis of genetic disorder, sex, or ethnicity prohibited; penalty. Removes from the list of persons who can perform first trimester abortions any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within such person's scope of practice. The bill adds procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion. The bill adds 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. The bill also provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of a genetic disorder, the sex, or the ethnicity of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony.

Abortion; basis of genetic disorder, sex, or ethnicity prohibited, penalty.

Del. Phillip Scott [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2022-01-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2022-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103685D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	77	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	71.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	72	(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?221+sum+HB983
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB983+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB983F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB983F122+PDF