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Legislation to Watch

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Virginia's General Assembly session began on January 13th.  Check out the bills we're tracking this session below or click here for a bill chart.
 
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Pro-Choice Legislation Anti-Choice Legislation

Registration of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers

Special License Plate: Trust Women Respect Choice

Abortion Clinic Licensure

Abortion Clinics; licensure and regulation (TRAP)

Abortion: Informed Consent

Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of the Unborn

Denied funding to Planned Parenthood

Informed consent includes ultrasound to determine gestation age

Medical Services

Medical Services

Medical Services

Planned Parenthood Denied State Funding

Residency Training in OBGYN

Pro-Choice Legislation:
Registration of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers

Bill Number:  HB 452/ SB 188 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Englin, Del. Herring, Sen. Northam

Requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations for the registration of limited service pregnancy centers.

Click here for a Fact Sheet about why these facilities are dangerous to women's health and public health at-large.

Special License Plate: Trust Women Respect Choice

Bill Number:  [ view bill ]
Status:  Passed
Sponsor(s):  Sen. J. Howell and Del. R. Brink

Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates bearing the legend: TRUST WOMEN/RESPECT CHOICE. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the standard $10 for most other nonrevenue-sharing special license plates. For each set of plates issued (after the first 1,000 sets), $15 will go to the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood to provide women's health services in Virginia.
 
Anti-Choice Legislation:
Abortion Clinic Licensure

Bill Number:  Budget Item 292#1h
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

Out of the general fund appropriation for this item, the State Board of Health, in conjunction with the Board of Medicine, shall develop a program for the licensure, inspection and regulation of women's outpatient surgical clinics and physician offices that perform 25 or more abortions per year.
Abortion Clinics; licensure and regulation (TRAP)

Bill Number:  HB 393 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Lohr

Requires all abortion clinics, defined as any facility other than a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center in which 25 or more first trimester abortions are performed in any 12-month period, to be licensed and regulated by the Board of Health.

Click here for a Fact Sheet about why this bill is dangerous to women.

Abortion: Informed Consent

Bill Number:  HB 334 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

Requires information non the effects abortion may have on future pregnancies to be included in the information required for informed consent.
Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights of the Unborn

Bill Number:  HB 112 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

Provides that persons, including unborn children at every stage of development, enjoy the inherent rights to the enjoyment of life and liberty guaranteed by Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia and the right to due process guaranteed in Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Denied funding to Planned Parenthood

Bill Number:  Budget Item 4-5.04#3h
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Athey

No expenditures from general, special or other nongeneral fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof."
Informed consent includes ultrasound to determine gestation age

Bill Number:  HB 1042 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Byron

Requires that, as a component of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestation age, every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image of her fetus prior to the abortion.

Click here to view a Fact Sheet about why HB 1042 harms women and providers.

Medical Services

Bill Number:  Budget Item 4-5.05#2s
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Sen. Vogel

MEDICAL SERVICES. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, no expenditure from general, special, or other non-general fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly for services provided by any organization providing abortion or abortion counseling services, except hospitals as defined in Section 32.1-123 of the Code of Virginia."
Medical Services

Bill Number:  Budget Item 4-5.04#1h
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

MEDICAL SERVICES: No expenditures from general, special or other nongeneral fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly for providing abortion services, except as otherwise required by federal statute. However, nothing herein shall prevent a physician from providing medical assistance to preserve the life of a pregnant woman provided that every possible measure shall be taken to preserve the life of the unborn child of the pregnant woman."
Medical Services

Bill Number:  Budget Item 4-5.04#2h
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

MEDICAL SERVICES: No expenditures from general, special or other nongeneral fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof."
Planned Parenthood Denied State Funding

Bill Number:  Budget Item 4-5.05#1s
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Sen. Obenshain

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, no expenditure from general, special, or other non-general fund sources shall be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof."
Residency Training in OBGYN

Bill Number:  HB 335 [ view bill ]
Status:  Failed
Sponsor(s):  Del. Marshall

No candidate for the examination to practice medicine shall be required  to complete training in the procedure of induced abortion in residency training in obstetrics and gynecology.
 

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