No. HB 1151
Filed under Healthcare.
Health Care Autonomy; Establishes fundamental right to reproductive health care; provides that every individual has fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about individual's own reproductive health; provides that individuals who become pregnant have fundamental right to make certain decisions in exercise of such right; prohibits state from denying or interfering with individual's right to access reproductive health care; prohibits state & local law enforcement agencies & officials from harassing or discriminating against individual for providing or obtaining reproductive health care or assisting another person in doing so; prohibits such state & local entities from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against individual for exercising specified rights, or against individual for assisting another in exercising such rights; provides individuals with immunity from civil liability for exercising specified rights or aiding or assisting another in exercising such rights; provides that fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under laws of this state; prohibits local units of government from regulating individual's ability to exercise right to reproductive health care in manner more restrictive than that set forth in specified provisions.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCreates a new fundamental right to reproductive health care -- covering contraception, abortion, sterilization, and fertility care -- that applies notwithstanding chapter 390 and overrides any state or local law that conflicts with it.
A pregnant individual gets an explicit right to choose an abortion or to continue the pregnancy and give birth, and the state may not deny or interfere with anyone's access to reproductive health care.
Law enforcement cannot prosecute or penalize anyone for exercising or helping another exercise this right, no one can be sued civilly for it, and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus gets no independent legal rights.
Local governments cannot restrict this right further than state law allows, and the bill separately repeals three existing health care statutes outright without saying what they currently require.
AICreates a state-law fundamental right to reproductive health care -- covering contraception, sterilization, maternity care, and abortion -- that applies despite chapter 390 (Florida's abortion statute) and expressly supersedes any part of chapter 390 that conflicts with it.
AIEvery individual in Florida has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about their own reproductive health, including the right to use or refuse reproductive health care such as contraception or sterilization.
AIAnyone who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to choose whether to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to obtain an abortion, and to decide autonomously how to exercise that choice.
AIState government may not deny or interfere with an individual's fundamental right to access reproductive health care of any kind covered by this section, from contraception through abortion care.
AIState and local law enforcement agencies and officials may not harass, discriminate against, penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against a person for exercising these rights, for their pregnancy outcome, or for helping someone else exercise the right with that person's consent.
AIFlorida law will not treat a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus as having rights of its own separate from the pregnant individual, foreclosing a fetal-personhood argument under state law.
AIA person exercising these reproductive-health rights, or someone who aids or assists another person in exercising them, cannot be held civilly liable for doing so.
AIIndependent of the new reproductive-freedom section, this bill repeals ss. 286.31, 381.00321, and 765.113 of the Florida Statutes in their entirety. The bill does not reproduce their text, so this analysis cannot state what specific requirements or protections they currently impose that will no longer apply.