Virginia Senate Bill 1549 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-01-26 - Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Performance of abortions; informed written consent. 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 reduces from two to one the number of consulting physicians who must certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman's death or impairment of her mental or physical health and eliminates the need for such physicians to find that the woman's health would be substantially and irremediably impaired. The bill 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.

Abortions; informed written consent.

Sen. Jennifer Wexton [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Janet Howell [D]
Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

2017-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-26	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
2017-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2017-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 17103746D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	77	(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?171+sum+SB1549
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1549+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S04V0076+SB1549