View Amendment Current Amendment: 16 to Bill 4100

Senator CASH proposes the following amendment (4100R032.KMM.RJC.DOCX):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 33, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, page 370, after line 33, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:

/33.__. (DHHS: Defunding Planned Parenthood) None of the state funds appropriated for family planning may be expended to directly or indirectly subsidize abortion services, procedures, or administrative functions. Furthermore, none of the state funds appropriated herein may be paid or granted to an organization that provides abortion services. An otherwise qualified organization may not be disqualified from the receipt of these funds because of its affiliation with an organization that provides abortion services, provided that the affiliated organization that provides abortion services is independent of the qualified organization. An independent affiliate that provides abortion services must be separately incorporated from any organization that receives these funds. An organization that provides abortion services in which the life of a mother is at risk and the termination of a pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention is excepted from the above restriction on state family planning funds and may receive state family planning funds, provided that physicians shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child. /

Amend sections, totals and title to conform.