HB1511: The Abortion Complications Act of 2022; create.

Legislative Summary

An Act To Be Known As "the Abortion Complications Act Of 2022"; To Make Certain Findings And Declarations Of The Legislature Regarding Abortions And Abortion Complication Reporting Provisions; To State That The Purpose Of This Act Is To Promote The Health And Safety Of Women, By Adding To The Sum Of Medical And Public Health Knowledge Through The Compilation Of Relevant Data On All Abortions Performed Or Treated In The State, As Well As On All Medical Complications And Maternal Deaths Resulting From These Abortions; To Provide That Reports Of Each Abortion Performed Shall Be Made To The Department Of Health And To Prescribe The Information To Be Included In The Reports; To Require That Certain Additional Information Shall Be Included In Reports For Nonsurgical Abortions; To Provide That Those Reports Shall Not Contain Any Information Or Identifiers That Would Make It Possible To Identify A Woman Who Has Obtained Or Seeks To Obtain An Abortion; To Require Health Care Facilities And Physicians To File Reports With The Department Regarding Each Woman Who Comes Under The Facility Or Physician's Care And Reports Any Complication, Requires Medical Treatment, Or Suffers Death That Is A Primary, Secondary Or Otherwise Related Result Of An Abortion; To Prescribe The Contents Of Those Abortion Complication Reports; To Provide That Those Reports Shall Not Contain Any Information Or Identifiers That Would Make It Possible To Identify A Woman Who Has Obtained An Abortion And Subsequently Suffered An Abortion-related Complication; To Provide That The Department Shall Prepare A Comprehensive Annual Statistical Report For The Legislature Based Upon The Data Gathered From The Reports Required Under This Act, And Summarize Aggregate Data From The Reports And Submit The Data To The United States Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (cdc) For The Purpose Of Inclusion In The Annual Vital Statistics Report; To Provide That The Reports Required Under This Act Shall Not Be Deemed Public Records And Shall Remain Confidential Except As Authorized Under This Act; To Provide That The Department Shall Create The Forms To Be Used For The Reports Required Under This Act; To Provide That Abortion-inducing Drugs Shall Not Be Provided Without The Informed Consent Of The Woman To Whom The Abortion-inducing Drug Is Provided At Least 24 Hours Before The Abortion-inducing Drug Is Provided To The Woman; To Provide Criminal Penalties For Willfully Disclosing Confidential Identifying Information In Violation Of This Act Or Willfully Delivering Or Disclosing To The Department Any Report, Consent Form Or Information Required Under This Act That Is Known To Be False; To Amend Section 41-41-31, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Definition Of "abortion" For The Purpose Of The Abortion Consent Statutes; To Bring Forward Sections 41-41-77, 41-41-78, 41-41-107 And 41-41-109, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provide For Reports Relating To Abortion And Which Relate To Abortion-inducing Drugs, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.