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SB 321 KY
Passed One Chamber

AN ACT relating to abortion.

KY · session 2022RS · Senate · bill

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Introduced Mar 3, 2022

Latest action (Mar 16, 2022) to Committee on Committees (H)

Summary

Create a new section of KRS 311.781 to 311.786 to include declarations of the General Assembly; amend KRS 311.781 to define "gestational age" and "probable gestational age" and redefine "pain-capable unborn child" to change the age from 20 weeks or more 15 weeks or more; create a new section of KRS 311.781 to 311.786 to authorize the Attorney General and the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure on its own behalf to file an action to enforce or for violation of KRS 311.781 to 311.786; amend KRS 311.782 to prohibit abortion when the probable gestational age is 15 week or more, with specified exceptions; amend KRS 311.783 and 311.787 to conform; establish severability and that nothing in this Act creates or recognizes a right to abortion.

Sponsors (2)

Action history (9)

  1. Mar 3, 2022 introduced in Senate · upper
  2. Mar 3, 2022 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
  3. Mar 7, 2022 to Judiciary (S) · upper
  4. Mar 10, 2022 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · upper
  5. Mar 11, 2022 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
  6. Mar 14, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 16, 2022 · upper
  7. Mar 16, 2022 3rd reading, passed 31-6 · upper
  8. Mar 16, 2022 received in House · lower
  9. Mar 16, 2022 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
Subjects
Attorney GeneralHealth and Medical ServicesPhysicians and PractitionersReproductive IssuesWomen

Text versions (2)

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  • Current/Final · PDF
  • Introduced · PDF

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