S-5059

   Amend Senate File 2286 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 15 and 16 and inserting <institution; impediment of the acquisition or merger of a health care institution;>
   2.  Page 1, by striking lines 21 and 22 and inserting <beliefs or principles held by a medical practitioner or health care institution.>
   3.  Page 1, by striking lines 32 through 34 and inserting <practitioner or health care institution as a result of the refusal of the medical practitioner or health care institution to participate in a>
   4.  Page 2, by striking lines 11 through 14.
   5.  Page 2, line 15, by striking <6.> and inserting <5.>
   6.  Page 2, by striking lines 25 through 28.
   7.  Page 2, line 29, by striking <8.> and inserting <6.>
   8.  Page 3, line 4, by striking <9.> and inserting <7.>
   9.  Page 3, by striking lines 9 through 11 and inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  135S.2  Exercise of conscience for health care institutions and medical practitioners —— immunity —— exception.
   10.  Page 3, by striking lines 12 through 28 and inserting: 
   <1.  a.  A health care institution shall not be required to participate in a health care service that violates the health care institution’s conscience, including by permitting the use of the health care institution’s facilities.
   b.  Except as provided in subsection 4, a health care institution that refuses to participate in a health care service under this section is immune from liability for damages allegedly arising from the refusal, and such refusal shall not be the basis for any discrimination against the health care institution, or any personnel, agent, or governing board of the health care institution.>
   11.  Page 4, line 17, by striking <or a health care payor>
   12.  Page 4, by striking lines 20 and 21 and inserting <the contrary, a medical practitioner or health care institution that holds itself out to the public as>
   13.  Page 4, by striking lines 30 and 31 and inserting: 
   <The exercise of conscience by a health care institution or medical practitioner not to participate>
   14.  Page 6, line 35, by striking <institution, health care payor,> and inserting <institution>
   15.  Page 7, line 11, by striking <or a health care payor>
   16.  Page 7, by striking lines 25 through 28.
   17.  Title page, lines 1 and 2, by striking <institutions, health care payors,> and inserting <institutions>
   18.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JEFF TAYLOR