Bill Text: WV HB4587 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To create a crime to send someone abortion pills through the U.S. mail
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB4587 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4587-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4587
By Delegate C. Pritt
[Introduced January 10, 2024; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then Judiciary ]
A BILL to amend and reenact the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, adding thereto a new section designated §30-5-24a, relating to prohibiting a mail-order pharmacy from dispensing an abortifacient or other abortion-inducing medication; and providing criminal penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 5. Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns and pharmacies.
§30-5-24a. Prohibiting mail-order pharmacy from dispensing certain medications; criminal penalty.
No mail-order pharmacy may dispense an abortifacient or other abortion-inducing medication by mail-order.
Any person or entity in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10,000.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a mail-order pharmacy from dispensing an abortifacient or other abortion-inducing medication; and provide criminal penalties.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
