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LD 1129 Title Page An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Abortion Reporting BY REQUEST Page 2 of 2
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1596, sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by PL 1989,
c. 274, §1, is amended to read:

 
2. Abortion reports. A report of each abortion performed
shall must be made to the Department of Human Services on
forms prescribed by the department. These report forms shall
may not identify the patient by name or otherwise and shall
may contain only the information requested on the United
States Standard Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy,
published by the National Center for Health Statistics, dated
January 1978, or any more recent revision of a standard report
form.

 
The form containing that information and data shall must be
prepared and signed by the attending physician and transmitted
to the department not later than 10 days following the end of
the month in which the abortion is performed. The department
shall publish and make available to the public such
information and data within 60 days from the end of the
calendar year for which they were reported.

 
A physician who reports data on an abortion pursuant to this
section shall be immune from any criminal liability for that
abortion under section 1598.

 
The report forms must be completely filled out.__Any portion
of the form that is optional must be clearly marked.__The form
must include the name of the physician, the date of the
abortion, the date of the last menses, if known, the estimated
age of the fetus and the procedure used in the abortion.__The
form may require the reporting of other information.

 
A person who violates this subsection must be reported by the
department to the Board of Licensure in Medicine within 30
days of each violation.__For the purposes of this subsection,
each incomplete report is a separate violation.

 
The department shall adopt rules to implement this subsection.__
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter
2-A.

 
The department shall publish the name of every person reported
to the Board of Licensure in Medicine and the number of times
the person violated this subsection.__This information must be
available to the public within 60 days from the end of the
calendar year for which it was reported.


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