Life Gauge Bills: 2005

Life Gauge's 66 bills introduced in the House in 2005  --- 

HJR 13 --- Amendment stating that the West Virginia Constitution does not grant a right to an abortion.  Armstead.  To Const Rev/Judic.
HJR 14 --- Amendment clarifying that the Constitution does not require this State to pay for any abortion.  Ron Thompson.  To Const Rev/Judic.

HB 2042 --- Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure.  Schoen.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2052 --- Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility.  Blair.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2068  ---  Requiring that any person seeking an abortion provide two forms of identification.  Sumner.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2091 --- Prohibiting the distribution of RU-486 by any administrator, employee or other official of the college or university.  Ellem.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2112 ---  Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor.  Blair and Sumner.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2125 --- Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures.  Azinger.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2130 --- Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state.  Overington.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2132  ---  Providing justification to use deadly force when a pregnant woman reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened.  Overington.  To Judic.
HB 2143 --- Prohibiting school employees in their official capacity from facilitating an abortion.  Sobonya.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2152 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations.  Hamilton.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2172  ---  Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents.  Sobonya.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2183 --- Requiring any facility that performs abortions to maintain a quality assurance program.  Evans.   To HHR/Judic.
HB 2192 --- State shall not pay for transportation to abortion-related appointments.  Howard.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2193 --- Providing when any part of an unborn child is outside the mother's womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state.  Howard.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2199 --- Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from being involved in aiding or assisting any person to obtain an abortion to a greater extent than is required by law.  Walters.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2200 --- Prohibiting family planning centers in WV that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals.  Walters.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2217 --- Providing that a woman who obtains an abortion has a cause of action against any physician who causes injury to the woman or the unborn child.  Louisos.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2230 --- Establishing the crime of Partial Birth Infanticide.  Border, Azinger.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2291 --- Prohibiting the payment for the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 as a benefit under any health care insurance plan offered by the state to public employees.  Louisos.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2301  ---  Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus.  Romine, Schoen.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2378 --- Requirement that certain medical facilities which provide abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of increased risk of breast cancer.  Ellem, Boggs, Overington, Pino.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2383 --- Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided the father of the unborn child.  Walters.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2422  ---  Providing a separate offense when a person causes death or serious bodily injury to an unborn child while attempting to cause death or serious bodily injury to the mother.  Sumner, Frich, Howard, Sobonya.  To Judic.
HB 2531 --- Requiring physicians and medical institutions to report instances where abortions have been performed due to perceived congenital defects of fetuses.  Ron Thompson.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2532 --- Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus.  Carmichael, Frich, Hall.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2553 ---  Requiring the higher education policy commission to ensure that no person employed by any state institution of higher education, or who provides services to any state institution of higher education or to the higher education policy commission, performs or participates in or instructs students in how to perform any abortion or abortion procedure.  Walters.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2559 --- Providing that unborn children are eligible for the children's health insurance program.  Ashley, Stevens.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2572 ---  Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.  Schoen, Boggs.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2591 --- Requiring medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted.  Romine.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2654 --- Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities.  Ashley, Wakim.  To Educ/Judic.
HB 2840  ---  Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal.  Trump, Lane, Blair.  To Judic.
HB 2856 --- Prohibiting cloning of human beings and embryos.  Armstead, Border, Frich, Howard, Blair.  To Judic.
HB_2857 --- Adding criminal penalties to the Informed Consent legislation passed in 2003.  Wakim.  To HHR/Judic.
HB_2858 --- Abortion clinics shall comply with best practices determinations of the Department of Health and Human Resources.  Evans.  To HHR/Judic.
HB_2888 --- Parents of any minor to undergo an abortion shall be notified at least 48 hours before the operation.  Border.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2895 --- Physicians performing abortions must take measures designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus.  Rowan, Stevens, Porter, Roberts.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2896 ---  Requiring abortion providers to have relationship with hospitals within 15 minutes travel time.  Tansill, Stevens.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2913 --- Requiring pre-employment examinations for persons working in a facility that performs abortions.  Stevens, Tansill, Evans, Rowan, Porter.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2915 --- Requiring the Bureau for Public Health to license, regulate and inspect facilities where three or more abortions are performed during a calendar year.  Roberts, Porter, Stevens.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2916 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed in this state from performing an abortion.  Frich, Stevens, Roberts.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2921 --- Granting the Bureau for Public Health the authority to inspect facilities where abortions are performed at any time during the day or night, without a warrant.  Tansill, Stevens.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2922 ---  Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions.  Lane, Walters, Armstead, Sumner, Porter.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2923 --- Banning partial birth abortions in instances when the unborn child is capable of survival if delivered.  Lane, Stevens, Porter, Blair, Sumner.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2927 --- Requiring that nursing services at any facility that provides abortions be under the direction of a registered nurse.  Roberts, Porter, Stevens.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2940 --- Prohibiting the destruction of frozen embryos, and to provide for the adoption of frozen embryos.  Stevens, Roberts, Tansill.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2941 --- Relating to banning abortions in West Virginia; and providing a criminal penalty for violation.  Wakim.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2952 --- Requiring all abortions performed during the second or third trimester be performed in a hospital.  Frich, Stevens, Tansill.  To HHR/Judic.
HB 2953 --- Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area.  Azinger.   To HHR/Judic.
HB 2970 --- Relating to requiring Rh factor, chlamydia and gonorrhea tests for all persons seeking to have an abortion.  Hall.  To HHR/Jud.
HB 2976 --- Relating to requiring all middle schools and high schools to teach fetal development.  Hall.  To Educ/Jud.
HB_2996 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors.  Porter, Sumner, Lane.  >> HHR/Jud.
HB 3011 --- Defining "the deceased" for purposes of prescribing that a deceased victim includes unborn children under first and second degree murder.  Rowan.  >> Jud.
HB 3028 --- Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice.  Houston.  >>Jud/Fin.
HB 3030 --- Providing that health care providers, health care institutions, or health care payers are not required to participate in abortion procedures that violate their respective consciences.  Houston.  >>HHR/Jud.
HB 3043 --- Requiring that abortion procedures after the first trimester be performed only at an ambulatory surgical facility or hospital licensed to perform that service and that abortion facilities not be located within fifteen hundred feet from the property of  .  .  .    Eldridge.  >>HHR/Jud.
HB 3123 --- Prohibiting employees of higher education from assisting students in securing abortions.  Porter.  >Jud.
HB 3124 --- Requiring that fetal models be displayed in schools.  Barker.  >Educ/Jud.
HB 3126 --- Providing that when during the course of an abortion procedure a fetus is aborted alive, all available means be utilized to preserve its life.  Barker.  >HHR/Jud.
HB 3142 --- Requiring physicians who perform abortions to report to the Division of Health whether the male who impregnated the minor female receiving the abortion was eighteen years or older at the time of the impregnation.  Eldridge, Romine.  >Jud.
HB 3144 ---  Relating to the "Human Cloning Prohibition Act".  Leggett.  >Jud.
HB 3195 --- Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus, and prescribing criminal penalty for violations.  Carmichael. >HHR/Jud.
HB 3200 --- Allowing hospitals to perform abortions only if the mother's life is in imminent danger.  Boggs.  >HHR/Jud.
HB 3262 --- Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed.  Trump.  >HHR/Jud.
HB 3266 --- Requiring physicians to file regular reports with the DHHR, regarding patients who require medical treatment as a result of an abortion and providing criminal penalties.  Perry, Louisos.  >HHR/Jud.

HB 2530 --- Gender.  Duplicate 2301.
HB 2533 --- Separate offense.  Duplicate 2422.
HB 2767 --- Prohibiting abortions at state university medical facilities.  Duplicate 2572.

SB 1 --- Prohibiting cloning of humans and embryos.  McKenzie.  >HHR/Judic
SB 8 --- School employees shall not counsel, refer, transport student re abortion.  Dempsey.  >Educ/Jud
SB 23 --- Govt health insurance program for unborn children.  McKenzie, Barnes, Weeks.  >HHR/Finance
SB 75 --- No person not a licensed WV physician shall perform an abortion.  Dempsey.  >HHR/Judic
SB 82 --- Consent from parent before performing abortion on minor.  Weeks, Barnes.  >HHR/Judic
SB 87 --- Requiring statistics on abortions.  Weeks.  >HHR/Finance
SB 88 --- Prohibiting use of body of unborn baby for experimentation.  Weeks, Barnes.  >HHR/Jud
SB 98 --- Allowing pharmacists to refuse to dispense abortifacients.  Weeks.  >HHR/Jud
SB 172 --- Creating Abortion Procedure Rights of Conscience Act.  Sprouse, Barnes.  >HHR/Jud
SB 249 ---  Relating to preserving life when fetus aborted alive.  Love, Weeks.  >HHR/Judic
SB 349 --- Not take minor across state line > abortion.  Love, Sharpe, Dempsey, Weeks, Minear, Minard.  >HHR/Jud
SB 468 --- No hospital shall be required to provide abortion services.  Harrison, Boley.  >HHR/Judic
SB 472 --- No state-funded health clinic shall refer patients to abortion clinics.  Harrison, Boley.  HHR/Judic
SB 508 --- No human cloning in state colleges or universities.  Sprouse.  >>HHR/Educ/Jud.
SB 509 --- Mother granted opportunity to see ultrasound image of fetus.  Caruth, Barnes.  >HHR/Jud
SB 673 --- Establishing Health Care Rights of Conscience Act.  Barnes.  >HHR/.Jud.

(HB2331/SB146 = UVV Act;   HB 3006/SB 533 -- parental notification)