Section 39-9501 – SHORT TITLE.

39-9501. SHORT TITLE. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Abortion Complications Reporting Act." History: [39-9501, added 2018, ch. 225, sec. 1, p. 509.]

Section 39-9502 – LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

39-9502. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (1) The legislature of the state of Idaho asserts and finds that: (a) The state "has legitimate interests from the outset of pregnancy in protecting the health of women," as found by the United States Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey; (b) Specifically, the state "has […]

Section 39-9503 – DEFINITIONS.

39-9503. DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter: (1) "Abortion" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 18-502, Idaho Code. (2) "Complication" means any of the following, if it constitutes an abnormal or a deviant process or event arising from the performance or completion of an abortion: (a) Uterine perforation or injury to the […]

Section 39-9504 – ABORTION COMPLICATION REPORTING.

39-9504. ABORTION COMPLICATION REPORTING. (1) Every hospital, licensed health care facility or individual medical practitioner shall file a written report with the department regarding each woman who comes under the hospital’s, health care facility’s or medical practitioner’s care and receives treatment for any item listed in section 39-9503(2), Idaho Code, that the attending medical practitioner […]

Section 39-9505 – REPORTING FORMS.

39-9505. REPORTING FORMS. The department shall create the forms required by this chapter within sixty (60) days after the effective date of this chapter. Such forms shall provide for the reporting of information required by section 39-9504(2), Idaho Code. No provision of this chapter requiring the reporting of information on forms published by the department […]

Section 39-9506 – PENALTIES AND PROFESSIONAL SANCTIONS.

39-9506. PENALTIES AND PROFESSIONAL SANCTIONS. (1) Any person who willfully delivers or discloses to the department any report, record or information required pursuant to this chapter and known by him or her to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) Any person who willfully discloses any information obtained from reports filed pursuant to this […]

Section 39-9507 – CONSTRUCTION.

39-9507. CONSTRUCTION. (1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion. (2) It is not the intention of this chapter to make lawful an abortion that is currently unlawful. History: [39-9507, added 2018, ch. 225, sec. 1, p. 513.]

Section 39-9508 – RIGHT OF INTERVENTION.

39-9508. RIGHT OF INTERVENTION. The legislature, by concurrent resolution, may appoint one (1) or more of its members who sponsored or co-sponsored this chapter in his or her official capacity, or other member or members if the original sponsors and co-sponsors are no longer serving, to intervene as a matter of right in any case […]

Section 39-9509 – SEVERABILITY.

39-9509. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be severable, and if any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid for any reason, such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter. History: [39-9509, added 2018, […]