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Senate committee advances AB 260 to shield medication-abortion providers, prescriptions
Summary
The Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee voted to move AB 260 to the Senate Appropriations Committee after testimony from the bill—s author, reproductive-health providers and the California Department of Justice; one witness opposed.
Assemblymember Aguiar Curry introduced AB 260, a measure she described as protecting access to medication abortion in California, at the June 23 meeting of the California State Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. The panel voted to move the bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The bill—s author, Assemblymember Aguiar Curry, told the committee AB 260 would protect health care providers, pharmacies, clinics and hospitals from disciplinary or licensing consequences for legally providing mifepristone and would allow prescription labels to omit patient and prescriber names. "This bill…
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