View Amendment Current Amendment: 618R002.LKG.DOCX to Bill 618     Senator GROOMS proposed the following amendment (618R002.LKG):
    Amend the bill, as and if amended, pages 1-2, by striking subsection (B) of Section 1-11-790 and inserting:

/     (B)(1)     There is created a separate and distinct subaccount within the State Health Insurance Plan to be known as the Woman's Services Fund. The fund is comprised of employee contributions by a subscriber who affirmatively agrees to a portion of his employee contributions being transferred to the fund. Monies deposited in the fund must be used to reimburse the expenses of an abortion, including ancillary services, performed in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother's medical condition is one which, in the opinion of her physician within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, so complicates the pregnancy as to necessitate an immediate abortion to avert the risk of her death.
        (2)(a)     A portion of each subscriber's employee contribution to the State Health Insurance Plan, who affirmatively agrees pursuant to item (1), must be transferred to the fund to carry out the purposes of the fund.
            (b)     During annual enrollment, the State Health Insurance Plan must include on its enrollment form a section that allows a subscriber of the plan to affirmatively agree or not agree to a portion of the subscriber's employee contributions being transferred to the fund. This section of the enrollment form shall state: 'By checking the box, I am declaring that I do want a portion of my premiums to be used to reimburse the expenses of an abortion, including ancillary services, performed in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother's medical condition is one which, in the opinion of her physician within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, so complicates the pregnancy as to necessitate an immediate abortion to avert the risk of her death.'
        (3)     A subscriber's decision pursuant to this subsection does not affect the subscriber's premium or any participant's access to coverage under the plan or the fund created by this section."
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    Renumber sections to conform.
    Amend title to conform.