Senate Bill No. 545
(By Senators Dempsey, Love, Weeks and Smith)
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[Introduced February 14, 2003; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section fourteen,
relating to prohibiting school employees from counseling,
referring, transporting or assisting any student to obtain an
abortion; and providing that nothing in the section may be
construed as approving of abortion.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
fourteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. SCHOOL PERSONNEL.
§18A-2-14. Employees prohibited from promoting abortion.
No person employed by, compensated by or providing any services for the state board or any county board may counsel,
refer, transport or assist any student to obtain an abortion as
part of or in relation to their employment. Any person who
violates this provision is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in
this section may be construed to endorse, allow, permit or approve
of any abortion.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit all employees
of the state board of education or any county board, while in the
course of their duties, from counseling, referring, transporting or
assisting any student to obtain an abortion.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.