Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0917

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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