Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0913

"Positive Alternatives Act"; requiring and providing for commissioner of health
grants to agencies or organizations for reasonable expenses of programs
providing information on, referral to and assistance in securing services
encouraging and assisting women in carrying pregnancies to term; specifying
certain grant eligibility requirements, inseverability clause; requiring the
commissioner to develop and carry out a statewide public information campaign to
educate the public on certain issues relating to alternatives to abortion,
prenatal care, the availability of adoption services and parenting and support
services, specifying certain allowable materials for information dissemination
purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner for the grants and for the
information campaign; requiring the commissioner to monitor and review the
programs of the grantees to ensure careful adherence to the purposes and
requirements of the grant program; severability clause; granting the supreme
court original jurisdiction over actions challenging the constitutionality of
the provisions
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