Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override a governors veto and pass a bill that authorizes prenatal care for minors without parental consent.

Highlights:

• Authorizes pregnant minors who have the mental capacity to consent to provide informed consent to any medical or dental procedure, service, hospitalization, and surgery related to their prenatoal care, the delivery process, or postnatal care if (Sec. 1):

• The healthcare provider first makes an effort to obtain consent from the minor’s parent or guardian; and

• The minor’s parent or guardian is either unavailable or withholds consent.

• Specifies that this bill does not apply to an emancipated minor nor as any consent required prior to an aboriton (Sec. 1).

Vetoed by Governor Kristi Noem

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that authorizes prenatal care to minors without parental consent.

Highlights:

• Authorizes pregnant minors who have the mental capacity to consent to provide informed consent to any medical or dental procedure, service, hospitalization, and surgery related to their prenatoal care, the delivery process, or postnatal care if (Sec. 1):

• The healthcare provider first makes an effort to obtain consent from the minor’s parent or guardian; and

• The minor’s parent or guardian is either unavailable or withholds consent.

• Specifies that this bill does not apply to an emancipated minor nor as any consent required prior to an aboriton (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes prenatal care to minors without parental consent.

Highlights:

• Authorizes pregnant minors who have the mental capacity to consent to provide informed consent to any medical or dental procedure, service, hospitalization, and surgery related to their prenatoal care, the delivery process, or postnatal care if (Sec. 1):

• The healthcare provider first makes an effort to obtain consent from the minor’s parent or guardian; and

• The minor’s parent or guardian is either unavailable or withholds consent.

• Specifies that this bill does not apply to an emancipated minor nor as any consent required prior to an aboriton (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text