Virginia Senate Bill 1001 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 16 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-12 - Left in Education and Health
Pending: Senate Education and Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, the physician is required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; creates, penalty.

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-12	Senate	Left in Education and Health
2020-01-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-01-16	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 20105225D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	76.10	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	76.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1001
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1001+hil