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FISCAL NOTEWest Virginia Legislature

2016 Regular Session

Introduced

House Bill 2715

2015 Carryover

(By Delegates Sobonya, Frich, Miller, Householder, Butler, Ihle and Kurcaba)

 

[Introduced January 13, 2016; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]

     

 

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §61‑2‑8a, relating to making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents or legal guardians; and providing a penalty.


Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,  designated §61‑2‑8a, to read as follows:


ARTICLE 2.  CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.

§61‑2‑8a.  Transporting a minor across state lines for an abortion; penalty.

A person who transports a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion, without the  written consent  of both parents or the legal  guardians  of the  minor, is  guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall  be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, or confined  in jail not  more  than  six months, or both fined and confined.

 

 

NOTE: The purpose  of this  bill is to make it a misdemeanor to transport  a minor  across state  lines  to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents or her legal guardians.

 

This  section  is  new; therefore, it  has  been  completely  underscored.

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