This bill would establish the Abortion-Inducing Drug Safety Act.
This bill would provide legislative findings and purposes.
This bill would make it unlawful to administer any abortion-inducing drug to a woman without her receiving an exam by a physician.
This bill would provide a physician with guidelines to follow in administering an abortion-inducing drug.
This bill provides for criminal and civil penalties.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 653
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 652
Rules Petition to Cease Debate adopted Roll Call 651.
Marsh Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health
Source: Alabama Legislature