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Committee adopts amendment on medically necessary sterilizing treatment; moves bill forward
Summary
The Judiciary Committee adopted amendment 18-83 s to clarify what constitutes appropriate reproductive care, list reasons a physician may not deny sterile procedures, and specify medical-board discipline; the bill was advanced as amended.
The Judiciary Committee adopted a committee amendment (18-83 s) to a bill described in committee as addressing appropriate reproductive care and the circumstances in which physicians may not deny medically necessary sterilizing procedures. The committee then voted to move the bill forward as amended.
Representative Reed, who presented the amendment, told the committee the changes refine the definitions and disciplinary mechanism in the introduced bill. The amendment clarifies that physicians may not deny medically necessary sterilizing treatment for reasons such as age, number of children, marital status…
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