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AB-2164: Expanding Protections for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Activities
This law extends legal protections to people who help others access reproductive or gender-affirming health care in other states, provided those actions were allowed where they happened.
What This Bill Does
- Extends state legal protections to acts done outside the state that aid or encourage reproductive or gender-affirming health care services.
- Requires that out-of-state acts must have been lawful under the laws of the place where they occurred.
- Prohibits the Governor from recognizing extradition requests for criminal liability related to protected health care activities, including theories like conspiracy or joint liability.
Who It Names or Affects
- People who aid or encourage others in accessing reproductive or gender-affirming health care outside the state.
- The Governor regarding decisions on surrendering people to other states for extradition related to these services.
Terms To Know
- Legally protected health care activity
- Health care actions, such as reproductive or gender-affirming services, that are allowed by the laws of this state.
- Extradition
- The process where one government sends a person to another government for trial or punishment after being charged with a crime.
Limits and Unknowns
- Protections only apply if the actions were legal in the state or jurisdiction where they took place.
- The bill includes exceptions that allow extradition under certain unspecified conditions.
- This law does not change existing rules about civil lawsuits from other states, which are already blocked by current laws.