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Senate committee narrows licensing threshold for abortion facilities, bans elective hospital abortions except in emergencies
Summary
Senate Bill 388, which lowers the Department of Health licensing trigger for abortion facilities from 10 abortions to any abortion and includes a hospital prohibition for elective abortions except in medical emergencies, passed the committee despite questions about overlap with SB 6 and legal challenges.
The Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee passed Senate Bill 388 after debate over its purpose and relationship to recently passed legislation. A sponsor summarized the bill as modifying licensing to require facilities that perform any abortions to be licensed rather than only those that perform ten or more per month.
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