Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2568%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&billtype=B&houseorig=H&i=2568
Timestamp: 2020-08-11 13:59:29
Document Index: 695648365

Matched Legal Cases: ['§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16', '§16']

Enrolled Version - Final Version House Bill 2568 History
[Passed February 25, 2015; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-2M-1, §16-2M-2, §16-2M-3, §16-2M-4, §16-2M-5, §16-2M-6 and §16-2M-7, all relating to prohibiting certain abortions; stating legislative findings; defining terms; requiring a calculation of gestational age before an abortion is performed or attempted, except in certain cases; prohibiting abortions when the gestational age of the fetus reaches pain capable gestational age; creating certain exceptions to that prohibition; requiring a physician performing an abortion of a fetus that has reached pain capable gestational age to use the process most likely to allow the fetus to survive, with certain exceptions; requiring reporting of all completed abortions and that the reports contain certain information regarding the abortion; requiring an annual public report that provides statistics of the abortions while keeping the identities of the persons involved confidential; deeming violations by physicians and other licensed medical practitioners to be a breach of the standard of care and outside the scope of practice that is permitted by law; allowing for discipline from the applicable licensure board for that conduct, including, but not limited to, loss of professional license to practice for violation; constituting violations for nonphysician and nonlicensed medical practitioners as unauthorized practice of medicine and subject to criminal penalties; preserving existing legal remedies for violations; clarifying that no penalty may be assessed against a patient; and making provisions severable.