Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Health Care Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1012
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act requires that a doctor provide the same standard of care to any child born alive that requires life-saving treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care practitioner for violations. Allows the court to order that the identity or personally identifiable information of specified persons is 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
4 co-sponsors
Its course
February 11 to June 27, 2025, 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 2 days
In the SenateFeb 11 to Jun 27 · stopped136 days
Waiting for a committeeFeb 11 to Feb 110 days
Health CareFeb 11 to Jun 27 · stopped136 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.
In the Senate Feb 11 – Jun 27
- Feb 11Introduced
- Sent to Health Care
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
- Feb 11Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
- Feb 11Referred to Health Care.Senate
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate