Health and Safety Bills
DEAD Alabama House Bill 178 These bills would have allowed healthcare providers, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers to refuse to perform or to participate in healthcare services that violate their conscience. STATUS: These bills were introduced in the Senate on March 1, 2011, and in the House on March 8, 2011. SB 46 passed the Committee on Health on April 14, 2011, and HB 178 passed the Committee on Health on May 31, 2011. Both bills died on June 1, 2011, when they were indefinitely postponed. DEAD Arizona House Bill 2432 This bill would have provided paid sick and safe time leave for all employees. Employees would have been permitted to take paid leave to care for their domestic partner or the children of their domestic partner. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the House on Feb. 3, 2011, and was referred to the Employment and Regulatory Affairs, Commerce, and Rules Committees. It died upon adjournment on April 20, 2011. DEAD Arkansas House Bill 1983 This bill would have allowed a healthcare provider, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer to decline to participate in a healthcare service that violates the conscience of the healthcare provider, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer. STATUS: This bill was introduced on March 7, 2011, and was referred to the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee. The bill died upon adjournment on April 27, 2011. DEAD Arkansas House Bill 2100 This bill would have required the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor to study barriers to HIV testing that contribute to the inability to reduce the incidence of HIV infection in Arkansas and to present final findings concerning this interim study and recommendations for legislation to the governor and the Legislature Council on or before Dec. 1, 2012.
STATUS: This bill was introduced in the House on March 7, 2011, and was referred to the Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor. The bill died upon adjournment on April 27, 2011.
DEAD Florida Senate Bill 180 This bill would have required all antiretroviral agents to be included on health plan formularies, and prohibited access-limiting procedures used to restrict antiretroviral agents prescribed to treat a person with HIV. STATUS: This bill was introduced March 8, 2011, and was referred to the Health Regulation, Banking and Insurance, and Budget Committees. It died on May 7, 2011, when the House indefinitely postponed the bill.
Health and Safety Bills DEAD
ACTIVE Washington Senate Bill 5296 This bill would modify the public employee health benefits law to cover opposite-sex couples eligible for a state registered domestic partnership. The existing law already provided for same-sex domestic partners. STATUS: This bill was introduced in the Senate on Jan. 20, 2011, and was referred to the Committee on Health and Long-Term Care.
DEAD Indiana Senate Bill 530 This bill would have incorporated the offense of “deviate sexual conduct” into the crime of rape, and repeals the statute defining the crime of “criminal deviate conduct.” “Deviate sexual conduct” is defined as to include oral and anal sex. STATUS: This bill was introduced on Jan. 18, 2011, and passed the Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters on Feb. 10, 2011. It passed the full Senate on Feb. 17, 2011, and was transferred to the House where it was referred to the Committee on Courts and Criminal Codes. The bill died upon adjournment on April 29, 2011. DEAD Kansas House Bill 2321 This bill would have amended the existing criminal law to, in part, remove consensual adult sodomy from the criminal statutes. STATUS: This bill was introduced Feb. 11, 2011. It was passed by the Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on March 9, 2011. The bill failed in the full House by a vote of 32 to 91 on March 14, 2011. DEAD Kentucky House Bill 35/ Senate Bill 49 These bills would have added dating partners to the class of persons allowed to obtain domestic violence protective orders. Dating partners was defined in a gender neutral manner. STATUS: HB 35 was introduced in the House on Jan. 4, 2011. It passed the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 4, 2011, and the full House on Feb. 8, 2011. The bill was transferred to the Senate and assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee. SB 49 was introduced in the Senate on Jan. 5, 2011, and was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both bills died upon adjournment on March 9, 2011.
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