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Clerk of the Senate

   ADOPTION NO. _____

BILL NO: H.5126  (Reference is to Printer's Date 04/21/26-S.)

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 Senator BRIGHT proposes the following amendment (SM ANNUAL ABORTION AND PROCEDURES REPORTING):

 Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 117, GENERAL PROVISIONS, page 585, after line 27, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:

/ (GP: Annual Abortion and Procedures Reporting) (A) For the current fiscal year, the Public Employee Benefit Authority and the Department of Health and Human Services shall each prepare and submit an annual report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Each report shall be submitted no later than March 1 of the current fiscal year and shall cover all activity during the preceding calendar year. The report must include:

  (1) the total number of abortions paid for, in whole or in part, or for which reimbursement was provided by the agency (or by health plans administered by the agency), broken down by the specific statutory exception under South Carolina law that authorized the procedure (Sections 44-41-640 (medical emergency), 44-41-650 (rape or incest), 44-41-660 (fatal fetal anomaly), or any successor provisions of Title 44, Chapter 41, as amended); and

  (2) separately, the number of dilation and curettage (D&C) procedures or any equivalent uterine evacuation procedures paid for or reimbursed by the agency that were performed solely to remove a dead unborn child, and which are excluded from the definition of abortion under Section 44-41-610(1) (or successor provisions).

 (B) The reports shall be prepared in a manner that protects patient confidentiality and shall contain no personally identifiable information. The agencies shall make the full reports publicly available on their respective websites. / 

 Renumber sections to conform.

 Amend sections, totals and title to conform.