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2007 SESSION

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HB 2456 Information about anesthesia for fetuses; doctors required to offer.

Introduced by: Benjamin L. Cline | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Anesthesia for fetuses.  Requires doctors to offer to anesthetize a fetus prior to abortion and to include in informational materials a statement that a fetus at 20 gestational weeks has the physical structures necessary to feel pain and react to physical stimuli in a manner that, in an infant or adult, would be interpreted as a response to pain.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/07  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 074691268  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/09/07  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 074691268
• 01/09/07  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/02/07  House: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 5-N)
• 02/03/07  House: Read first time
• 02/05/07  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/06/07  House: Read third time and passed House (69-Y 29-N)
• 02/06/07  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (69-Y 29-N)
• 02/06/07  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/07/07  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/07/07  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/15/07  Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 10-N)