Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Rules Committee on June 30, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.
2019 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1042
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion. Requires health care practitioner to ensure child born alive is transported to hospital. Creates crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows specified person to bring civil action for damages and equitable relief against health care practitioner for failure to exercise proper standard of care. Directs court to award attorney fees to prevailing plaintiff. Allows court to order identity or personally identifiable information of specified person protected from disclosure.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Chief co-sponsors
7 co-sponsors
Herman Baertschiger Jr., Cliff Bentz, Brian Boquist, Fred Girod, Bill Hansell, Kim Thatcher, Chuck Thomsen
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
April 1 to June 30, 2019, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 3 days
In the SenateApr 1 to Jun 30 · stopped90 days
Waiting for a committeeApr 1 to Apr 21 day
RulesApr 2 to Jun 30 · stopped89 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.