5E "Positive Alternatives Act"; requiring and providing for commissioner of health grants to agencies or organizations for reasonable expenses of programs providing alternatives to abortion through programs to support, encourage and assist women in carrying pregnancies to term and caring for babies after birth; specifying certain services included and certain grant eligibility requirements, organizations providing or promoting abortions or directly referring to an abortion provider to be ineligible for the grants, excepting independent affiliates able to demonstrate independence; prohibiting applicants from providing or assisting women to obtain adoption services from nonlicenced adoption services providers; requiring the commissioner to approve information provided by grantees on the health risks associated with abortions to ensure the medical accuracy of the information; requiring programs receiving grants to maintain privacy policies and procedures, granting the commissioner certain information access authority; specifying a deadline for the start of the grant award process and certain commissioner programs monitoring and review requirements; severability clause; granting the supreme court original jurisdiction over actions challenging the constitutionality of the provisions, requiring expedited resolution; appropriating money to the commissioner for administrative costs of program implementation and establishing the base funding for certain future fiscal years
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