Reproductive Health and Rights Bill Tracker

2013 General Assembly Session

At Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, our top legislative priority is ensuring greater access to health care for all Virginians including expansion of Medicaid. In Virginia, 175,000 women ages 0-64 would receive access to health insurance based on current estimates. As one of the leading health care providers for women Commonwealth, we will work tirelessly to ensure greater access to all Virginians.

OPPOSE

HB1314

  • Patron: R-13 Del. R.Marshall
  • Summary: If an insurer, including an HMO or corporation, offers a health care plan through an exchange and includes coverage of birth control, sterilization or "abortifacients," the insurer must offer an otherwise identical plan without coverage for those services
  • Status: House: Motion to discharge Committee on Commerce and Labor rejected

HB1315

  • Patron: R-13 Del. R.Marshall  
  • Summary: No insurer (including HMO or corporation) that offers a plan through an exchange can offer a plan that includes coverage of contraception, sterilization or "abortifacients" unless the subscriber or enrollee requests such coverage
  • Status:  House: Motion to discharge Committee on Commerce and Labor rejected

HB1316

  • Patron: R-13 Del. R. Marshall
  • Summary: Provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of the sex of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also requires that the information that must be provided to a woman seeking an abortion prior to obtaining her informed written consent to the procedure shall include a statement that the physician would be committing a criminal offense if he performs an abortion solely on account of the sex of the unborn child.
  • Status:  House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB1417

  • Patron: R-13 Del. R. Marshall
  • Summary: No health insurance plan offered by VA or any locality to any of its employees is required to including coverage for contraception, sterilization or "abortifacients."
  • Status:  House: Motion to discharge Committee on Commerce and Labor rejected

SB826

  • Patron:  R-22 Sen. T. Garrett
  • Summary: Repeals the section authorizing the Board of Health to fund abortions for women who meet the financial eligibility criteria of the State Plan for Medical Assistance in cases in which a physician certifies that he believes that the fetus would be born with a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or mental deficiency.
  • Status:  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)

 

SUPPORT

HB1614 

  • Patron: D-47 Del. P. Hope
  • Summary: Immunizations; human papillomavirus vaccine required for all children. Eliminates language limiting the requirement for the human papillomavirus vaccine to female children, so that all children will be required to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, with the first dose administered before the child enters the sixth grade, subject to certain exceptions in current law.
  • Status: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB1560 

  • Patron: D-38 K. Kory
  • Summary: Removes the requirement that a woman undergo a transabdominal ultrasound prior to an abortion. 
  • Status: House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB1644

  • Patron: D- 39 Del V. Watts
  • Summary: Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. "Birth control" means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2.
  • Status: House: Tabled in Courts of Justice (10-Y 6-N)

HB1775

  • Patron: D-41 Del. E. Filler-Corn
  • Summary: Abortion; optional ultrasound. Eliminates the requirement that a pregnant woman undergo a mandatory transabdominal ultrasound prior to the performance of an abortion to determine the gestational age of the fetus and provides that a pregnant woman shall be offered the opportunity to have an ultrasound performed.
  • Status: House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB1776

  • Patron: D-41 Del E. Filler-Corn
  • Summary: Ultrasound prior to abortion; physician civil penalty. Provides that no physician shall be subject to a civil penalty for failure to perform or supervise the performance of the ultrasound imaging required prior to an abortion if, in his medical judgment, such ultrasound imaging is not medically necessary. Currently, any physician who violates any provision of the abortion informed consent statute is subject to a $2,500 civil penalty.
  • Status: House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB1876

  • Patron: D-71 Del. J. McClellan
  • Summary: Sterilization operations for persons capable of informed consent. Eliminates the requirement for a 30-day waiting period prior to a sterilization operation for persons who are over the age of 18 and capable of giving informed consent who have not previously become the natural or adoptive parent of a child.
  • Status: Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health

HB2182 

  • Patron: D-47 Del. P. Hope
  • Summary: Classification as hospitals of certain facilities in which abortions are performed. Eliminates language classifying facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed as hospitals for the purpose of compliance with regulations of the Board of Health related to construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals.
  • Status: House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

HB2183

  • Patron: D-47 Del. P. Hope
  • Summary: Classification as hospitals of certain facilities in which abortions are performed. Eliminates language classifying facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed as hospitals for the purpose of compliance with regulations of the Board of Health related to construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals.
  • Status: House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote

SB701

SB783

  • Patron: D-9 Sen. D. McEachin
  • Summary: Birth control; definition. Adds a definition of birth control. "Birth control" means contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Birth control shall not be considered abortion for the purposes of Title 18.2.
  • Status: Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)

SB1080 

  • Patron: D-31 Sen. B. Favola
  • Summary: Ultrasound imaging. Provides that no law or regulation of the Commonwealth or administrative action of an agent of the Commonwealth shall require that a person receive ultrasound imaging for nonmedical reasons or ultrasound imaging that is not medically indicated as a condition of receiving a medical procedure.
  • Status: Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)

SB1082 

SB1115

  • Patron: D-33 Sen. M. Herring
  • Summary: Classification as hospitals of certain facilities in which abortions are performed. Eliminates language classifying facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed as hospitals for the purpose of compliance with regulations of the Board of Health related to construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals.
  • Status: Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)

SB1116

  • Patron: D-33 Sen. M. Herring
  • Summary: Design and construction standards for certain facilities. Provides that regulations of the Board of Health for the construction, maintenance, operation, staffing, and equipping of hospitals shall apply to facilities in which five or more first trimester abortions per month are performed only when the design or construction of such facility is initiated after July 1, 2013. This bill includes an emergency clause.
  • Status: Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)

 

 ** Passed By = Failed or Dead Bill 

 

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