Bill Text: VA SB1493 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Contraception; right to access.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - Assigned Education sub: Health [SB1493 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-SB1493-Introduced.html
2025 SESSION
LEGISLATION NOT PREPARED BY DLS
INTRODUCED
25105346D
SENATE BILL NO. 1493
Offered January 17, 2025
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 32.1 a chapter numbered 21, consisting of a section numbered 32.1-376, relating to contraception; right to access.
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Patron—Suetterlein
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Title 32.1 a chapter numbered 21, consisting of a section numbered 32.1-376 as follows:
CHAPTER 21.
CONTRACEPTION.
32.1-376. Right to access contraception.
A. It is the public policy of the Commonwealth that, independently of the requirements of the Constitution of the United States, individuals posses the right to access contraception as set forth in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972).
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A, no one shall be compelled to provide contraceptives if such rejection is based upon religious or conscientious objection.
