Virginia Senate Bill 709 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-01-18 - Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Performance of abortions; informed written consent. Eliminates all the procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a woman's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion; however, the bill does not change the requirement that a woman's informed written consent be first obtained. The bill eliminates the requirement that two other physicians certify that a third trimester abortion is necessary to prevent the woman's death or impairment of her mental or physical health as well as the need to find that the woman's health would be substantially and irremediably impaired. The bill removes language classifying facilities that perform five or more first-trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals.

Abortions; performance of ultrasound, informed written consent.

Sen. Jennifer Wexton [D]

2018-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-18	Senate	Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100950D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	77	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	74	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	76	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	127	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB709
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB709+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0026+SB0709