House File 231 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY WINDSCHITL, ALONS, STRUYK, SODERBERG, BAUDLER, DOLECHECK, PETTENGILL, HAGENOW, DE BOEF, SCHULTZ, WATTS, SANDS, MAY, RAECKER, HUSEMAN, HELLAND, and L. MILLER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to termination of pregnancy reporting 2 information, and making penalties applicable. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1953YH 83 5 pf/nh/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 144.29A, subsection 1, Code 2009, is 1 2 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 3 NEW PARAGRAPH. l. A description of complications, if any, 1 4 from the termination of pregnancy or following the termination 1 5 of pregnancy. 1 6 EXPLANATION 1 7 This bill requires as additional information to be 1 8 collected by a health care provider regarding a termination of 1 9 pregnancy, a description of complications, if any, from the 1 10 termination of pregnancy or following the termination of 1 11 pregnancy. Existing penalties applicable to the Code chapter 1 12 apply to violations of the reporting requirements under the 1 13 bill, including but not limited to a penalty of a serious 1 14 misdemeanor for willfully and knowingly making any false 1 15 statement in the report or supplying false information 1 16 intending that the information be used in the preparation of 1 17 the report and a penalty of a simple misdemeanor for refusing 1 18 to provide information required, or for willfully violating 1 19 any of the provisions of the bill or refusing to perform any 1 20 of the duties imposed in the bill. 1 21 LSB 1953YH 83 1 22 pf/nh/5