Comprehensive Initiative to Prevent Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy Bill
House File 2731/senate File 1665
Lead Author: Senator John Marty
Disclaimer: The following highlights were taken from a draft of the bill. Final bill language may be slightly different than below.
“A bill for an act relating to prevention of abortion and unintended pregnancy; increasing access to family planning services; expanding educational efforts to prevent sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies; increasing wholesome after school activities for youth.”
State Based Family Planning
- Require MDH to ensure comprehensive family planning services are available in every county.
- Provide additional funding.
- If the federal waiver is granted, appropriations should total $5 million/ year for Family Planning Special Projects(FPSP).
- If the federal waiver is denied, FPSP should total $20 million/year.
Community Outreach for Family Planning Information
- Train and require MFIP caseworkers to provide family planning information and referrals. Funding for materials and training should accompany this as needed.
- Abortion providers are required to give family planning and contraception information to women who have had an abortion.
- Require MDH to maintain a website with accurate FDA-approved methods of contraception, as well as regional listings for subsidized family planning providers.
- Provide funding to MDH for public education to promote awareness and proper usage of emergency contraception.
School-based Initiatives
- Amend the ENABL law so that it includes comprehensive sex education, promotes abstinence, and emphasizes male responsibility. Increase state funding to $1.2 million.
- Reinstate the After-School Enrichment Grants, which were repealed by the 2003 Legislature.
- Require the Commissioner of Education to develop a plan that ensures all school districts provide comprehensive family life and sexuality education by 2008. This includes education in grades K-12 that is age appropriate and respects community values and family communication; that develops skills in communication, decision making and conflict resolution; that contributes to healthy relationships; that provides human development and sexuality education that is medically accurate and age appropriate; that promotes responsible sexual behavior including promotion of abstinence; that addresses the use of contraception; and that promotes individual responsibility.
- HIV/AIDS/STI Regional Training Sites
- Restore funding of Regional Training Sites that was repealed by the 2003 Legislature.
- Rename training sites to "Regional Training Sites for Comprehensive Family Life and Sexuality Education in Schools."
- Expand the program from four sites to six to eight sites.
- Add language to the original statute to address not only HIV/AIDS, but also unintended pregnancy and sexuality education.
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