Bill Text: MI HB5698 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance; health benefits; Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act; provide exception to protect the woman's health. Amends sec. 11 of 2013 PA 182 (MCL 550.551).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-26 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/25/2016 [HB5698 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5698-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5698

May 25, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Hovey-Wright, Sarah Roberts, Driskell, Pagan, Irwin, Wittenberg, Schor, Faris, Moss, Guerra, Durhal, Singh, Chang, Garrett, Hoadley, Plawecki, Greig, Cochran, Byrd, Liberati, Chirkun, Greimel, Rutledge, Yanez and Gay-Dagnogo and referred to the Committee on Insurance.

 

     A bill to amend 2013 PA 182, entitled

 

"Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act,"

 

by amending section 11 (MCL 550.551).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 11. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Elective abortion" means the intentional use of an

 

instrument, drug, or other substance or device to terminate a

 

woman's pregnancy for a purpose other than to increase the

 

probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the

 

child after live birth, or to remove a fetus that has died as a

 

result of natural causes, accidental trauma, or a criminal assault

 

on the pregnant woman. Elective abortion does not include any of

 

the following:

 

     (i) The use or prescription of a drug or device intended as a

 

contraceptive.

 

     (ii) The intentional use of an instrument, drug, or other

 

substance or device by a physician to terminate a woman's pregnancy

 

if the woman's physical condition, in the physician's reasonable

 

medical judgment, necessitates the termination of the woman's

 

pregnancy to protect the woman's health or to avert her death.

 

     (iii) Treatment upon a pregnant woman who is experiencing a

 

miscarriage or has been diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy.

 

     (b) "Department" means the Michigan Department of Licensing

 

and Regulatory Affairs or its successor.

 

     (c) "Health care corporation" means a nonprofit health care

 

corporation that term as defined in section 105 of the nonprofit

 

health care corporation reform act, 1980 PA 350, MCL 550.1105.

 

     (d) "Health facility or agency" means that term as defined in

 

section 20106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.20106.

 

     (e) "Physician" means an individual licensed or otherwise

 

authorized to engage in the practice of medicine or the practice of

 

osteopathic medicine and surgery under article 15 of the public

 

health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838.

 

     (f) "Qualified health plan" means that term as defined in

 

section 1301 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,

 

Public Law 111-148.42 USC 18021.