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2009 SESSION
HB 2634 Unborn child pain information; requires doctors to offer to anesthetize fetus prior to abortion.
Introduced by: Benjamin L. Cline | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Unborn child pain information. 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.
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HISTORY
- 01/23/09 House: Presented and ordered printed 096949464
- 01/23/09 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/02/09 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/02/09 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting
- 02/04/09 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/06/09 House: Read first time
- 02/08/09 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/09 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/10/09 House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 34-N)
- 02/10/09 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (64-Y 34-N)
- 02/11/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/09 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/19/09 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)