Senate Bill No. 545
(By Senators Dempsey, Love, Weeks and Smith)
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[Introduced
February 14, 2003; referred to the Committee on Education; and then to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new
section, designated section fourteen, relating to prohibiting school employees
from counseling, referring, transporting or assisting any student to obtain an
abortion; and providing that nothing in the section may be construed as
approving of abortion.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That
article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated section fourteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. SCHOOL PERSONNEL.
§18A-2-14. Employees prohibited from promoting abortion.
No
person employed by, compensated by or providing any services for the state board
or any county board may counsel, refer, transport or assist any student to
obtain an abortion as part of or in relation to their employment. Any person who
violates this provision is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this section may
be construed to endorse, allow, permit or approve of any abortion.
NOTE:
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit all employees of the state board of
education or any county board, while in the course of their duties, from
counseling, referring, transporting or assisting any student to obtain an
abortion.
This
section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.