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Date | State | Bill No. | Title | Outcome |
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Nov. 15, 2018 | OH | HB 258 | Prohibits Abortion After a Fetal Heartbeat is Detected | Bill Passed - House (60 - 35) |
May 15, 2018 | LA | SB 364 | Requires Campus Free Speech Policies | Bill Passed - House (58 - 26) |
May 15, 2018 | LA | SB 181 | Prohibits Abortion After 15 Weeks | Bill Passed - House (81 - 9) |
May 10, 2018 | MN | SF 2849 | Requires Abortion Physicians to Give Patients Option of Ultrasound | Bill Passed - House (79 - 48) |
May 1, 2018 | IA | SF 359 | Prohibits Abortion After a Heartbeat is Detected | Bill Passed - House (51 - 46) |
April 19, 2018 | TN | HB 2381 | Authorizes 'Monument to the Unborn' | Bill Passed - House (63 - 15) |
April 17, 2018 | TN | SB 2133 | Prohibits Criminal Sentencing Based on Sterilization | Bill Passed - House (70 - 23) |
April 16, 2018 | PA | HB 2050 | Prohibits Abortions Based on a Diagnosis of Down Syndrome | Bill Passed - House (139 - 56) |
April 9, 2018 | AZ | SB 1394 | Amends Abortion Reporting Requirements | Bill Passed - House (35 - 22) |
April 3, 2018 | MO | HB 1266 | Prohibits Abortion After 22 Weeks of Pregnancy | Bill Passed - House (117 - 31) |
March 28, 2018 | AZ | SB 1393 | Authorizes Parents to Use Frozen Embryos after Divorce | Bill Passed - House (33 - 25) |
March 15, 2018 | MD | HB 908 | Requires Insurance Companies to Cover Fertility Treatments for Cancer Patients | Bill Passed - House (133 - 2) |
March 12, 2018 | ID | S 1243 | Requires Public Information Regarding Abortion Interventions | Bill Passed - House (55 - 11) |
March 12, 2018 | ID | S 1243 | Requires Public Information Regarding Abortion Interventions | Bill Passed - House (55 - 11) |
March 12, 2018 | TN | HB 2251 | Prohibits State Funding for Abortions | Bill Passed - House (71 - 17) |
March 12, 2018 | KY | HB 454 | Prohibits Abortion After 11 Weeks of Pregnancy | Bill Passed - House (71 - 11) |
March 1, 2018 | ID | HB 638 | Requires Additional Abortion Complications Reporting | Bill Passed - House (56 - 13) |
Feb. 28, 2018 | IN | SB 340 | Amends Abortion Regulations | Bill Passed - House (67 - 26) |
Feb. 28, 2018 | OH | SB 28 | Requires Abortion Providers Bury or Cremate Fetal Remains | Bill Passed - House (12 - 7) |
Feb. 28, 2018 | WA | SB 6219 | Requires State Insurer Coverage of Abortion and Contraception | Bill Passed - House (50 - 48) |
Feb. 28, 2018 | WA | SB 6219 | Requires State Insurer Coverage of Abortion and Contraception | Bill Passed - House (50 - 48) |
Feb. 15, 2018 | NJ | S 120 | Appropriates $7.4 Million to Department of Health | Bill Passed - House (47 - 20) |
Feb. 12, 2018 | TN | HB 108 | Requires Ultrasound Prior to Abortion | Bill Passed - House (74 - 20) |
Feb. 12, 2018 | TN | HB 108 | Requires Ultrasound Prior to Abortion | Bill Passed - House (74 - 20) |
Feb. 5, 2018 | MS | HB 1510 | Prohibits Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy | Bill Passed - House (80 - 31) |
Feb. 5, 2018 | MS | HB 1510 | Prohibits Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy | Bill Passed - House (80 - 31) |
Feb. 5, 2018 | UT | HB 205 | Prohibits Abortions Based on a Diagnosis of Down Syndrome | Bill Passed - House (54 - 17) |
Jan. 19, 2018 | National | HR 4712 | Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act | Bill Passed - House (241 - 183) |
Jan. 12, 2018 | FL | HB 41 | Requires State to Contract with Pregnancy Support Services Network | Bill Passed - House (73 - 29) |