An Act relating to health care; defining terms; granting certain protections to health care institutions and health care payors; requiring certain disclosure; providing certain immunity from civil actions; providing certain construction; providing exception; conferring certain rights on medical practitioners, health care institutions, and health care payors; authorizing certain requirement by health care institution; prohibiting certain discrimination against medical practitioners and health care institutions; granting certain immunities to medical practitioners and health care institutions; granting additional protections; prohibiting certain disciplinary actions by professional licensing board or state agency; requiring certain provision of complaint; providing remedy for failure to notify; making certain interference unlawful; providing remedies for unlawful interference; directing promulgation of certain rules; providing certain construction; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.
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Grants medical practitioners, health care payors, and institutions the right to deny care based on conscience without facing professional reprimand. The definition of a medical practitioner includes anyone in the chain of care, including non-medical staff like receptionists.
Conscience is defined as an individual’s or entity’s ethical, moral, or religious beliefs. Retaliation is broadly defined as discrimination against a person or entity for exercising their conscious.
This is similar to Rep. Kevin West’s HB 1224 (2025). However, SB 959 provides greater protections for speech in the workplace.
Although rewritten, Rep. Kevin West introduced this bill as HB 3214 (2024).
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