SECOND REGULAR SESSION

CORRECTED

HOUSE BILL NO. 1250

88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES EDWARDSPAVIA (Sponsor), CHAMPION, BARTELSMEYER, LONG, COOPER, HARTZLER, CIERPIOT, SALLEE, DONOVAN, SECREST, KASTEN AND ENZ.

Read 1st time January 23, 1996 and 1000 copies ordered printed.

DOUGLAS W. BURNETT, Chief Clerk

L3112.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 197, RSMo, relating to medical treatment facilities by adding thereto one new section relating to the application of certain state regulations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 197, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 197.291, to read as follows:

197.291. 1. The regulations governing certain medical facilities in 19 CSR 30-30.050 through 19 CSR 30-30.070, shall apply to all abortion facilities in this state.

2. An "abortion facility" for the purpose of this section shall mean any place which is advertised or held out to the public as providing abortion services and in which an average of at least two abortions per month have been performed in the previous year. An "abortion facility" shall not include a hospital.