Senate Bill No. 644
(By Senator Guills)
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[Introduced February 12, 2008; referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new article, designated §16-2L-1, relating to
prohibiting state or county funds used for transportation of
persons for any phase of abortions.
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 article, designated §16-2L-1, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 2L. NO STATE-FUNDED TRANSPORTATION FOR ABORTION ACT.
§16-2L-1. Prohibition against reimbursement by state or county.
The state and counties may not pay or reimburse any person,
business, organization or other entity for transporting any person
to schedule, arrange or procure an abortion. This section may not
be construed or interpreted to condone, permit, allow or endorse any abortion.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the state or any
county from
reimbursing any person the cost of transportation for
an abortion.
This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring are omitted.