Senate Bill No. 526
(By Senators Love, Dempsey, Weeks, Smith and Guills)
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[Introduced
February 13, 2003; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter sixty-one of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new
section, designated section eight-a, relating to making it illegal to
transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written
consent from both parents; and providing for a penalty.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That
article two, chapter sixty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated section eight-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.
§61-2-8a. Transporting a minor across state lines for an abortion;
penalty.
If
any person transports a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion, without
the written consent of both parents or the legal guardians of the minor ,
the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars,
or confined in the county or regional jail not more than six months, or both
fined and imprisoned.
NOTE:
The purpose of this bill is to make it illegal to transport a minor across state
lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents, or the
legal guardians of the minor, and providing for a penalty.
This
section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.