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Adjourned sine die. The bill was pending when the session ended, so it did not pass.

Last action · February 7, 2025

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Introduced February 5, 2025

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

HB316

AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children.

Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.

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This bill would make it a crime for someone outside Kentucky to send abortion-inducing drugs into the state, with criminal penalties and fines for those who do so. It would also classify these drugs as Schedule IV controlled substances under Kentucky law and give a woman who receives such a drug the right to sue the person who sent it. The bill is currently being considered in a House committee. Who it may affect: people…

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