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2016 Session

Budget Amendments - HB30 (Conference Report)

Reinstate Language Related to Abortion (language only)

Item 4-5.04 #1c

Item 4-5.04 #1c

Special Conditions and Restrictions on Expenditures
Goods and Services

Language

Page 480, after line 24, insert:

"l.  MEDICAL SERVICES:  No expenditures from general or nongeneral fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly for providing abortion services, except otherwise as required by federal law or state statute."



Explanation

(This amendment prohibits any funding in the budget from being used for abortion services unless otherwise required by federal or state law. The introduced budget did not include this language, which is currently in the 2015 Appropriation Act.)