Indiana Senate Bill 299 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Passed on March 18 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-18 - Public Law 77
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Fetal remains. Requires the state department of health (state department) to develop forms that provide: (1) that a pregnant woman has a right after a surgical abortion to dispose of the remains by interment or cremation or have the provider dispose of the remains; and (2) that, after an abortion induced by an abortion inducing drug, the pregnant woman will expel an aborted fetus and set forth the disposition policy of the health care facility or abortion clinic concerning the disposition of the aborted fetus, including allowing a pregnant woman to return an aborted fetus to the health care facility or abortion clinic for disposition by interment or cremation. States that a pregnant woman who has an abortion has the right to have the health care facility or abortion clinic dispose of the aborted fetus by cremation or interment and to ask the health care facility or abortion clinic the method of disposition used. Requires the pregnant woman to inform the health care facility or abortion clinic of the pregnant woman's decision for disposition or, in the case of an abortion induced by an abortion inducing drug, whether the pregnant woman will return the aborted fetus to the health care facility or abortion clinic for disposition. Requires the health care facility or abortion clinic to dispose of the returned fetus by cremation or interment. Requires that a burial transit permit that includes multiple aborted fetal remains be accompanied by a log prescribed by the state department containing certain information, except in certain circumstances, about each fetus included under the burial transit permit.

Fetal remains.

Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]	Sen. Linda Rogers [R]	Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Sen. John Crane [R]
Sen. Blake Doriot [R]	Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Victoria Spartz [R]
Sen. Jeff Raatz [R]	Rep. Christy Stutzman [R]	Rep. Ronald Bacon [R]	Rep. Peggy Mayfield [R]
Rep. Robert Morris [R]

2020-03-11 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 81 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2020-03-10 - Senate - Senate - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 39 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 78 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 9) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 40 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-18	Senate	Public Law 77
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2020-03-16	House	Signed by the Speaker
2020-03-12	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2020-03-11	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 369: yeas 81, nays 15
2020-03-10	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 363: yeas 39, nays 10
2020-03-10	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2020-03-10	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2020-03-10	House	Representative Bacon added as conferee
2020-03-10	House	Representative Errington removed as conferee
2020-03-10	House	Representative Bacon removed as advisor
2020-03-10	Senate	Senator Kruse added as conferee
2020-03-10	Senate	Senator Breaux removed as conferee
2020-03-04	House	House advisors appointed: Bacon, Lehman, Fleming, Porter and Shackleford
2020-03-04	House	House conferees appointed: Stutzman and Errington
2020-03-03	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Rogers, Tallian, Zay and Ford J.D.
2020-03-03	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Breaux
2020-03-03	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2020-03-03	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2020-02-28	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2020-02-27	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 220: yeas 78, nays 13
2020-02-24	House	Amendment #1 (Bacon) prevailed; voice vote
2020-02-24	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2020-02-20	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2020-02-13	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2020-02-05	Senate	Referred to the House
2020-02-04	Senate	Senator Raatz added as coauthor
2020-02-04	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Bacon, Mayfield, Morris
2020-02-04	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Stutzman
2020-02-04	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 159: yeas 40, nays 9
2020-02-03	Senate	Senator Spartz added as coauthor
2020-02-03	Senate	Senator Kruse added as coauthor
2020-02-03	Senate	Senator Houchin added as coauthor
2020-02-03	Senate	Senator Doriot added as coauthor
2020-02-03	Senate	Amendment #3 (Breaux) failed; voice vote
2020-02-03	Senate	Amendment #2 (Breaux) failed; voice vote
2020-02-03	Senate	Amendment #1 (Breaux) failed; voice vote
2020-02-03	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-01-30	Senate	Senator Crane added as coauthor
2020-01-30	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-01-23	Senate	Senator Zay added as third author
2020-01-23	Senate	Senator Rogers added as second author
2020-01-09	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2020-01-09	Senate	Authored by Senator Brown L

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/299/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/7/d/2/47d26bbf/SB0299.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/a/f/a/8afaa484/SB0299.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/4/b/0/e4b04682/SB0299.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/8/0/7/b8079b3d/SB0299.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/c/2/5/7c25905a/SB0299.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/1/d/f/91df4a9a/SB0299.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/9/3/d/393d0387/SB0299.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/9/3/6/e936718a/SB0299.05.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/3/7/7/e37785b8/SB0299.01.INTR.02.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/4/5/6/c45687e9/SB0299.159_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/8/f/528f685b/SB0299.02.COMS.02.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/b/1/7/bb177d76/SB0299.220_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/a/5/0/7a509d07/SB0299.363_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/e/a/3/4ea39353/SB0299.369_H.pdf