SB6 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gerald H. Allen Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Abortion, physician guidelines prior to administering an abortion-inducing drug, civil and criminal penalties, Abortion-Inducing Drug Safety Act

Description

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.

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Subjects

Abortion