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WV SB560

HEALTHCAREFAILED

Medical Ethics Defense Act

The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.

Selected quotes

a) Freedom of Conscience. A medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer has the right not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service which violates his, her, or its conscience.

(c) Immunity from Liability. No medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer may be civilly, criminally, or administratively liable for exercising his, her, or its right of conscience not to participate in or pay for a medical procedure or service. No healthcare institution may be civilly, criminally, or administratively liable for the exercise of conscience rights not to participate in a medical procedure or service by a medical practitioner employed, contracted, or granted admitting privileges by the healthcare institution.

Legislative Session

inactive

2024 Regular Session

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History

DateAction
2024-01-25To Health and Human Resources
2024-01-25Introduced in Senate
2024-01-25To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2024-01-25Filed for introduction