West Virginia House Bill 4004 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-13 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create the “Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act. It provides definitions and makes it unlawful for any person to purposely perform or attempt to perform a dismemberment abortion and thereby kill an unborn child unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother. The bill provides that persons accused of performing such an illegal act are entitled to a hearing before West Virginia Board of Medicine. It identifies persons not liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion. It provides who may seek injunctive relief or a cause of action for civil damages against a person who has performed a dismemberment abortion and what damages may be awarded. The bill requires the court to rule whether the anonymity of any woman upon whom an abortion has been performed or attempted to be performed shall be preserved from public disclosure if she does not give her consent to such disclosure.  The bill declares that this section may not be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion, nor a right to a particular method of abortion. And, the bill creates a felony offense for violations and criminal penalties.

Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act

Sen. Karen Arvon [R]	Del. Saira Blair [R]	Del. Anna Border-Sheppard [R]	Del. Roy Cooper [R]
Del. Tom Fast [R]	Del. Cindy Frich [R]	Del. Lynwood Ireland [R]	Del. Kayla Kessinger [R]
Del. William Romine [R]	Del. Ruth Rowan [R]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-13	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2016-01-13	House	Introduced in House
2016-01-13	House	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2016-01-13	House	Filed for introduction

SB10 (Similar To) 2016-05-13 - Chapter 196, Acts, Regular Session, 2016
SB23 (Similar To) 2016-01-13 - To Health and Human Resources

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	2	31	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4004&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4004%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4004