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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session |
House: GOV DP 4-3-0-0 |
HB 2060: educational facilities; abortion; prohibited activities
Sponsor: Representative Keshel, LD 17
House Engrossed
Overview
Forbids public educational institutions, their employees, and Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) employees from encouraging or facilitating abortions. Prevents a public school from allowing abortion providers or medical facilities that refer patients to an abortion clinic to provide or display health education instruction.
History
Facilities that are run by or operate on the property of public educational institutions or under ABOR are not permitted to perform or provide abortions, unless the abortion is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. Public educational institutions include: 1) community colleges; 2) universities under ABOR; 3) school districts and their schools; 4) charter schools; 5) accommodation schools; and 6) Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind (A.R.S. §§ 15-115.01, 15-1630).
School districts and charter schools are not authorized to endorse, give financial or instructional program support, allow presentations during instructional time or provide materials to students as instruction as part of any program that does not propose childbirth and adoption as preferred options over elective abortion (A.R.S. § 15-115).
Abortion is the use of any means to terminate the pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of the unborn child. Abortion does not include: 1) birth control devices; 2) oral contraceptives to prevent ovulation; or 3) the use of any means to save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, preserve the life of a child after live birth, terminate an ectopic pregnancy or remove a dead fetus (A.R.S. § 36- 2151).
Provisions
1. Prohibits a public educational institution and a university under ABOR from encouraging or facilitating abortions. (Sec. 1, 3)
2. Prevents employees of public educational institutions, universities under ABOR and ABOR from encouraging or facilitating abortions when acting in their official capacity. (Sec. 1, 3)
3. Removes the definition of medical emergency. (Sec. 1)
4. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 3)
5. Prohibits a public school from allowing an abortion provider or a medical facility or organization that refers patients to an abortion clinic to:
a. provide health education instruction in the school;
b. provide health education instructional programs or curricula to the school or school employees; or
c. distribute or display any health education materials or media in the school that are created, paid for or donated by the abortion provider or bear an identifying mark of the abortion provider. (Sec. 2)
6. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Institution, if the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) determines that a public school is not in compliance with the prohibition and if the public school fails to correct the noncompliance within 90 days after receiving notice from ADE, to withhold any portion of the public school's state aid apportionment until ADE determines that the public school is in compliance with the prohibition. (Sec. 2)
7. Defines abortion clinic and abortion provider. (Sec. 2)
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