Signed by Governor Bobby Jindal

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges.

Highlights:

• Requires a licensed physician performing or inducing an abortion to have “active admitting privileges” at a hospital no further than 30 miles from the location of the abortion procedure (Sec. 1).

• Defines “active admitting privileges” as good standing as a member of the medical staff of a hospital, currently licensed by the Department of Health and Hospitals, with the ability to admit a patient and to provide diagnostic and surgical services (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits a physician from administering an abortion-inducing drug to an abortion patient without obtaining certain voluntary and informed consent measures, including, but not limited to, an ultrasound performed 24 hours before the abortion (Sec.1).

• Establishes a maximum $4,000 fine for any physician who violates the provisions of this bill (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires a physician performing an abortion to have hospital admitting privileges, effective September 1, 2014.

Highlights:

• Requires a licensed physician performing or inducing an abortion to have “active admitting privileges” at a hospital no further than 30 miles from the location of the abortion procedure (Sec. 1).

• Defines “active admitting privileges” as good standing as a member of the medical staff of a hospital, currently licensed by the Department of Health and Hospitals, with the ability to admit a patient and to provide diagnostic and surgical services (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits a physician from administering an abortion-inducing drug to an abortion patient without obtaining certain voluntary and informed consent measures, including, but not limited to, an ultrasound performed 24 hours before the abortion (Sec.1).

• Establishes a maximum $4,000 fine for any physician who violates the provisions of this bill (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text