Life Gauge Bills: 2006

Life Gauge's 75 bills introduced in the House in 2006  --- 

HJR 13 --- Amendment stating that the West Virginia Constitution does not grant a right to an abortion.  Armstead, Sobonya, Howard, Louisos.  Const Rev/Jud
HJR_112  --- Amendment clarifying that the Constitution does not require this State to pay for any abortion.  Sumner, Eldridge, Overington, Louisos, Lane, Tansill, Walters, Sobonya.   Const Rev/Jud

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.  HHR/Jud
HB 2052 --- Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility.  Blair.  HHR/Jud
HB 2068  ---  Requiring that any person seeking an abortion provide two forms of identification.  Sumner.  HHR/Jud
HB 2091 --- Prohibiting the distribution of RU-486 by any administrator, employee or other official of the college or university.  Ellem.  HHR/Jud
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.  HHR/Jud
HB 2125 --- Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures.  Azinger.  HHR/Jud
HB 2130 --- Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the state.  Overington, Louisos, Rowan, Sumner.  HHR/Jud
HB 2132  ---  Providing justification to use deadly force when a pregnant woman reasonably believes that her unborn child's life is threatened.  Overington, Louisos, Rowan, Evans, Frich, Blair.   Jud  [10]
HB 2143 --- Prohibiting school employees in their official capacity from facilitating an abortion.  Sobonya.  HHR/Jud
HB 2152 --- Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations.  Hamilton, Louisos, Romine.   HHR/Jud
HB 2172  ---  Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents.  Sobonya.   HHR/Jud
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.   HHR/Jud
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.   HHR/Jud
HB 2200 --- Prohibiting family planning centers in WV that receive state funding from discussing abortion or abortion referrals.  Walters.   HHR/Jud
HB 2383 --- Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided the father of the unborn child.  Walters.   HHR/Jud
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.   Jud
HB 2532 --- Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus.  Carmichael, Frich, Hall.   HHR/Jud
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.   HHR/Jud  [20]
HB 2559 --- Providing that unborn children are eligible for the children's health insurance program.  Ashley, Stevens.  HHR/Jud 
HB 2591 --- Requiring medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted.  Romine.   HHR/Jud
HB 2767 ---  Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.  Schoen, Boggs, Blair.   HHR/Jud
HB 2856 --- Prohibiting cloning of human beings and embryos.  Armstead, Border, Frich, Howard, Blair.   Jud
HB 2895 --- Physicians performing abortions must take measures designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus.  Rowan, Stevens, Porter, Roberts.   HHR/Jud
HB 2896 ---  Requiring abortion providers to have relationship with hospitals within 15 minutes travel time.  Tansill, Stevens.   HHR/Jud
HB 2913 --- Requiring pre-employment examinations for persons working in a facility that performs abortions.  Stevens, Tansill, Evans, Rowan, Porter.   HHR/Jud
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.   HHR/Jud
HB 2916 --- Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed in this state from performing an abortion.  Frich, Stevens, Roberts.   HHR/Jud
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.  HHR/Jud  [30]
HB 2922 ---  Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions.  Lane, Walters, Armstead, Sumner, Porter.  HHR/Jud  
HB 2923 --- Banning partial birth abortions in instances when the unborn child is capable of survival if delivered.  Lane, Stevens, Porter, Blair, Sumner.  HHR/Jud
HB 2927 --- Requiring that nursing services at any facility that provides abortions be under the direction of a registered nurse.  Roberts, Porter, Stevens.  HHR/Jud
HB 2940 --- Prohibiting the destruction of frozen embryos, and to provide for the adoption of frozen embryos.  Stevens, Roberts, Tansill.  HHR/Jud
HB 2952 --- Requiring all abortions performed during the second or third trimester be performed in a hospital.  Frich, Stevens, Tansill.  HHR/Jud
HB 2953 --- Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area.  Azinger.  HHR/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 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  [40]
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 4082 --- 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.  HHR/Jud
HB 4084 --- 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.  HHR/Jud
HB_4117 --- Adding criminal penalties to the Informed Consent legislation passed in 2003.  Wakim, Howard.  HHR/Jud
HB 4273 --- State shall not pay for transportation to abortion-related appointments.  Howard.  HHR/Jud
HB 4315  ---  Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity without fear of disciplinary action or dismissal.  Trump. HHR/Jud   [50]
HB_4335 --- Abortion clinics shall comply with best practices determinations of the Department of Health and Human Resources.  Evans.  HHR/Jud 
HB 4365 --- Requiring any facility that performs abortions to maintain a quality assurance program.  Evans.  HHR/Jud
HB_4367 --- Parents of any minor to undergo an abortion shall be notified at least 48 hours before the operation.  Border.  HHR/Jud
HB 4375 --- 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 4376 --- Establishing the crime of Partial Birth Infanticide.  Border.  HHR/Jud
HB 4388 --- 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 4408 --- Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities.  Ashley.   HHR/Jud
HB 4449 --- 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 4450 --- Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice.  Houston.  HHR/Jud
HB 4476 --- Requirement that certain medical facilities which provide abortions to warn women seeking an abortion of increased risk of breast cancer.  Ellem.   HHR/Jud  [60]
HB 4480 --- 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.   HHR/Jud
HB_4495 --- Clinics must comply with clean air standards.  Hamilton.  HHR/Jud
HB_4502  ---  Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus.  Romine.  HHR/Jud
HB_4507 --- Choose Life License Plates, with revenues to Crisis Pregnancy Centers.  Stephens, Eldridge, Howard, Sobonya.  HHR/Fin
HB_4523 --- Definitions of hospital requirements applied to abortion clinics.   G White, Wakim.  HHR/Jud
HB_4533 --- Relating to requiring all middle schools and high schools to teach fetal development.  Hall.  Educ/Fin
HB_4553 --- Ban to the fullest extent allowed under federal/state constitutions.  Wakim.  HHR/Jud
HB_4561 ---  No coverage of abortion under any state insurance plan.  Perry.  HHR/Jud
HB_4575 --- Parental consent in person, or notarized.  Susman.  HHR/Jud
HB_4579 --- Under the supervision of a licensed supervisor.   Susman.  HHR/Jud  [70]
HB_4664 ---   Boggs --- Reports of all abortion-related injuries and deaths.  HHR/Jud
HB_4665 ---  No abortions if child is viable.   Miley.  HHR/Jud
HB_4671 --- Must inform woman life begins at conception.  Miley.  HHR/Jud
HB_4672 --- Requiring Sexually Transmitted Diseases test for persons obtaining abortion.  Hall.  HHR/Jud
HB_4702 --- Must report abortions for congenital defects of fetuses.  Ron Thompson.  HHR/Jud  [75 total]

HB 4346 duplicates 4082