House panel prints bill to change abortion law
BOISE — A House panel voted Thursday to introduce a bill making changes to one that passed last year requiring doctors and hospitals to keep track of any complications resulting from abortions, and rejected a Democratic attempt to add a fiscal note to it that includes the estimated cost of any related lawsuits.
The original bill, which passed in 2018 and is being challenged in federal court by Planned Parenthood, requires health care providers to document a long list of possible health complications resulting from abortions.
Rep. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, who sponsored last year’s bill, on Thursday came back to the House State Affairs Committee with a new bill making changes to last year’s bill. It would leave most of the specific conditions that were listed before in place, but strikes a few, such as the need for follow-up care and inability or refusal to have follow-up care.
Chaney characterized it as “basically a housekeeping bill.”
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