Kentucky House Bill 759

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-19 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add rape or incest to the reporting requirement; amend KRS 311.990 to conform; repeal KRS 311.735, relating to notice to a spouse; provide that the Act may be cited as the Compassionate Care Act.

AN ACT relating to abortion.

Rep. Adam Moore [D]	Rep. Anne Donworth [D]	Rep. Daniel Grossberg [D]	Rep. Erika Hancock [D]
Rep. Matthew Lehman [D]	Rep. Joshua Watkins [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-19	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2025-02-19	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb759.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb759/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/25RS/hb759/CI.pdf