Medical Ethics Defense Act
The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.
2024 Regular Session
a) Freedom of Conscience. A medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer has the right not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service which violates his, her, or its conscience.
(c) Immunity from Liability. No medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer may be civilly, criminally, or administratively liable for exercising his, her, or its right of conscience not to participate in or pay for a medical procedure or service. No healthcare institution may be civilly, criminally, or administratively liable for the exercise of conscience rights not to participate in a medical procedure or service by a medical practitioner employed, contracted, or granted admitting privileges by the healthcare institution.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-01-25 | To Health and Human Resources |
| 2024-01-25 | Introduced in Senate |
| 2024-01-25 | To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary |
| 2024-01-25 | Filed for introduction |