Virginia Senate Bill 710 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-02-10 - Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N)
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 or authorized nurse practitioner 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 or authorized nurse practitioner who performs an abortion in violation of the Act.

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

Sen. Amanda Chase [R]	Sen. Travis Hackworth [R]	Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]	Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]
Sen. Frank Ruff [R]	Sen. William Stanley [R]

2022-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) (Y: 6 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-10	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N)
2022-01-31	Senate	Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
2022-01-21	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-21	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 22103699D

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?221+sum+SB710
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB710+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB710F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB710F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0149+SB0710