Amendment H-8316 to HF 2578
Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisions
Ruled not germane · April 5, 2022
Filed April 4, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a rule that makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, sell, or transfer mifepristone or similar abortifacient drugs in the state. It specifies that these prohibitions do not apply to women receiving an abortion, the use of contraceptives, or the use of misoprostol for miscarriages or labor induction.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 77, after line 24 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ ABORTIFACIENT DRUGS —— PROHIBITIONS Sec. ___. Section 144.29A, subsection 1, paragraph k, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows: k. The method used for an induced termination , including whether mifepristone was used . Sec. ___. NEW SECTION . 146E.1 Abortifacient drugs —— prohibited in the state.
- Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell, or transfer mifepristone, mifegyne, or mifeprex, or any substantially similar generic or non-generic abortifacient drug in the state.
- A person who violates this section is guilty of a class “C” felony.
- This section shall not be construed to impose civil or criminal liability on a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted in which an abortifacient drug otherwise prohibited under this section is used.
- This section shall not be construed to prohibit the sale, use, prescription, or administration of any contraceptive agent administered prior to conception or before a pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional medical testing.
- This section shall not be construed to prohibit the use of misoprostol for the medical management of miscarriage or induction of labor.”
- By renumbering as necessary.