Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0581

2E Establishing programs for the prevention of abortion, unintended pregnancies
and sexually transmitted infection; requiring hospitals and health care
facilities performing abortions to provide women with written information on
federal drug administration (FDA) approved methods of contraception and natural
family planning and offer referral information on local community resources
providing contraceptive services and family planning counseling at no or reduced
cost to low income clients, requiring the commissioner of health to print the
materials; requiring the commissioner to develop and maintain certain
information on family planning and referrals to local community resources on the
department web site and in allocating family planning grant funds to ensure
availability to county family planning special projects; modifying the education
now and babies later program, requiring the promotion of male sexual
responsibility; expanding the information requirements of the Minnesota family
investment program (MFIP) orientation program to information on family planning;
appropriating money to the commissioner of education for regional training sites
for comprehensive family life and sexuality education and for after school
enrichment grants and to the commissioner of health for the ENABL program, for
public education to promote the awareness and proper usage of emergency
contraception and to provide grants to government or nonprofit entities
operating school based clinics and to family planning special projects
(ra, ja)