l9n/ Oregon

2021 Regular Session

House Bill 2699

Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Health Care Committee on June 26, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.

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 House of Representatives

20 co-sponsors

Shelly Boshart Davis, Gary Leif, Mike Nearman, Mark Owens, E. Werner Reschke, Bobby Levy, Jami Cate, David Brock Smith, Rick Lewis, Daniel Bonham, Lily Morgan, Jack Zika, Vikki Breese-Iverson, Raquel Moore-Green, Kim Wallan, Ron Noble, Bill Post, Cedric Hayden, Boomer Wright, Suzanne Weber

In the Senate

4 co-sponsors

Lynn Findley, Bill Hansell, Tim Knopp, Dennis Linthicum

Its course

January 11 to June 26, 2021, 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 action4 actions on 4 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 11 to Jun 26 · stopped166 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 11 to Jan 198 days

Health CareJan 19 to Jun 26 · stopped158 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

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.

In the House of Representatives Jan 11 – Jun 26

  1. Jan 11Introduced
  2. Jan 19Sent to Health Care
  3. Jun 26Died when the session ended
All 4 actions, as published
  1. Jan 11First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Jan 19Referred to Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Jun 15Motion to withdraw from Health Care failed.House of Representatives
  4. Jun 26In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives