Key Votes
HB 1450 - Definition of Human Being - Key Vote
North Dakota Key Votes
Stages
- April 7, 2011 Senate Bill Not Tabled
- April 7, 2011 Senate Motion Rejected
- April 7, 2011 Senate Motion Agreed
- Feb. 11, 2011 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 17, 2011 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Not Tabled (Senate) (26-21) - April 7, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Definition of Human Being
Vote on a motion to table a bill that bans purposeful damage to an embryo.
- -Medical treatment for life-threatening conditions provided to a person by a licensed physician which results in the accidental or unintentional injury or death of another person;
-Medical treatment for life-threatening conditions in pregnancy;
-The screening, collecting, preparing, transferring, or cryopreserving of a human being created through in vitro fertilization for the purpose of being transferred to a human uterus;
-The disposal or destruction of a fertilized human ovum, zygote, or embryo, created through in vitro fertilization, which has been subject to medical testing and analysis, and in the reasonable judgment of a medical professional, if transferred to a human uterus, would not produce a live birth;
-The disposal or destruction of a fertilized human ovum, zygote, or embryo, created through in vitro fertilization, which has not progressed in development for 36 hours in culture;
-Contraception administered before a clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman; or
-The termination of a pregnancy that resulted from gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, sexual abuse of a ward, or incest.
NOTE: THIS VOTE RECONSIDERS A PREVIOUS VOTE TO TABLE THE BILL. A "YEA" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF REOPENING DEBATE ON THE BILL, AND A "NAY" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF HALTING FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL. A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE IS REQUIRED FOR PASSAGE.
Legislation - Motion Rejected (Senate) - April 7, 2011
NOTE: THIS VOTE RECONSIDERS A PREVIOUS VOTE TO TABLE THE BILL. A "YEA" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF REOPENING DEBATE ON THE BILL, AND A "NAY" VOTE IS IN SUPPORT OF HALTING FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL. A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE IS REQUIRED FOR PASSAGE.
Legislation - Motion Agreed (Senate) - April 7, 2011
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (68-25) - Feb. 11, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Definition of Human Being
Vote to pass a bill that bans purposeful damage to an embryo.
- -Medical treatment for life-threatening conditions provided to a person by a licensed physician which results in the accidental or unintentional injury or death of another person;
-Legitimate medical treatment for life-threatening conditions not intended to harm a person but which has the foreseeable effect of ending a person's life;
-The creation of a new human being through in vitro fertilization, but in no case does this excuse or justify causing the death of a human being; and
-Contraception administered before a clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman.
NOTE: THIS IS A SECOND READING VOTE TO END DEBATE ON THE BILL AND ADVANCE IT TO THE THIRD READING IN WHICH AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE FOR PASSAGE WILL OCCUR ONLY IF VOTES CHANGE OR THE THIRD READING OCCURS ON A DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 17, 2011
Title: Definition of Human Being
Sponsors
- Karen Karls (ND - R)
- James M. 'Jim' Kasper (ND - R)
- Oley Larsen (ND - R)
- George L. Nodland (ND - R) (Out Of Office)
- Dan J. Ruby (ND - R)
- Margaret Sitte (ND - R)
