Bill Text: MO HB1546 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes the requirements for reporting abortions to the Department of Health and Senior Services
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-24 - HCS Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1546 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB1546-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HARRIS (Sponsor), SANDER, SCHIEFFER, MEADOWS, DAVIS, HODGES, SHIVELY AND SCAVUZZO (Co-sponsors).
3584L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 188.052, 188.055, and 188.070, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to abortion, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 188.052, 188.055, and 188.070, RSMo, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 188.052, 188.055, and 188.070, to read as follows:
188.052. 1. An individual abortion report for each abortion performed or induced upon a woman shall be completed by her attending physician. The report shall include the following:
(1) Information required by the United States Standard Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy published by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, or its successor agency;
(2) Additional information on the type of abortion procedure used, including the specific surgical or nonsurgical method or the specific abortion-inducing drug or drugs employed, including but not limited to: vacuum aspiration, suction curettage, sharp curettage, dilation and evacuation (D&E), intact D&E, dilation and extraction (D&X), intrauterine saline instillation, intrauterine prostaglandin instillation, hysterotomy, methotrexate, miferpristone, or misoprostol;
(3) If provided by the woman, the reason or reasons the woman sought the abortion, including specific medical, social, economic, or other factors, including but not limited to: particular maternal health conditions, pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, does not want other persons to know of her pregnancy, other persons object to her pregnancy, has relationship problems with the father of the child, or other family members, lack of financial support from the father of the child, disruption of education or job, or desire to limit family size; and
(4) If provided by the woman, whether the woman used any method of family planning during the time she became pregnant, and if so, the specific method employed.
2. An individual complication report for any post-abortion care performed or induced upon a woman shall be completed by the physician providing such post-abortion care. This report shall include but not be limited to:
(1) The date of the abortion;
(2) The name and address of the abortion facility or hospital where the abortion was performed or induced;
(3) The nature of the abortion complication diagnosed or treated.
3. All abortion reports shall be signed by the attending physician, and submitted to the [state] department [of health and senior services] within forty-five days from the date of the abortion. All complication reports shall be signed by the physician providing the post-abortion care and submitted to the department [of health and senior services] within forty-five days from the date of the post-abortion care.
4. A copy of the abortion report shall be made a part of the medical record of the patient of the abortion facility or hospital in which the abortion was performed or induced.
5. The [state] department [of health and senior services] shall be responsible for collecting all abortion reports and complication reports and collating and evaluating all data gathered therefrom and shall annually publish a statistical report based on such data from abortions performed or induced and post-abortion care provided in the previous calendar year. The report shall specify the gestational age, by weekly increments, at which abortions were performed or induced. The report shall not include any information that would allow the public to identify a specific:
(1) Patient who obtained an abortion or who received post-abortion care;
(2) Physician who performed or induced an abortion or who provided post-abortion care; or
(3) Hospital or abortion facility where the abortion was performed or induced, or which provided post-abortion care.
6. The information provided by the woman shall be voluntarily provided by the woman seeking or obtaining the abortion, but the abortion facility, hospital, or physician shall make all reasonable efforts to collect the information required by this section and shall in no way dissuade or otherwise discourage the woman from providing the information required by this section.
188.055. 1. Every abortion facility, hospital, and physician shall be supplied with forms by the department [of health and senior services] for use in regards to the consents and reports required by sections 188.010 to 188.085. A purpose and function of such consents and reports shall be the preservation of maternal health and life by adding to the sum of medical knowledge through the compilation of relevant maternal health and life data and to monitor all abortions performed or induced to assure that they are done only under and in accordance with the provisions of the law.
2. All information obtained by a physician, hospital, or abortion facility from a patient for the purpose of preparing reports to the department [of health and senior services] under sections 188.010 to 188.085 or reports received by the [division of health] department shall be confidential and shall be used only for statistical purposes. Such records, however, may be inspected and health data acquired by local, state, or national public health officers.
188.070. Any [physician or other] person who [fails to maintain] knowingly violates the confidentiality of any records [or] , reports [required] , or documents maintained by the hospital or abortion facility, or received by the department under sections 188.010 to 188.085 is guilty of a [misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law] class D felony.
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