View Amendment Current Amendment: 3 to Bill 3548 Reps. J.E. SMITH, COBB-HUNTER and RUTHERFORD propose the following Amendment No. 3 to H. 3548 (COUNCIL\VR\3548C003.CC.VR17):

Reference is to Printer's Date 3/22/17--H.

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, Section 44-41-610, beginning on page 3548-1, by striking Section 44-41-610(A) and inserting:

/ (A)            Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician who knowingly performs or attempts to perform a dismemberment abortion and thereby kills an unborn child unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother or, in the professional medical judgment of the physician, the procedure is the best method for that individual patient, is guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be fined ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for two years or both. 'Serious health risk to the unborn child's mother' means that in reasonable medical judgment she has a condition that so complicates her medical condition that it necessitates the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions. No such condition may be determined to exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. /

Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.