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2001 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 390

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill establishes the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

219:1 New Subdivision; Live-Birth Infants Protection Act. Amend RSA 132 by inserting after section 21 the following new subdivision:

Live-Birth Infants Protection Act

219:132:22 This subdivision shall be known and may be cited as the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act.

219:132:23 Definition.

I. In this subdivision "live-birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of a human conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such expulsion or extraction, breathes, or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.

II. The definition under paragraph I shall apply whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.

219:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: July 11, 2001)

(Effective Date: September 9, 2001)