SB36: Relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities.
Vetoed
Senate
Keyword matches: ["medical"]
Summary
This law mandates that healthcare providers and medical facilities collect and report detailed abortion statistics. While framed as data collection, such requirements often increase administrative burdens on providers and can be used to justify future legislative restrictions on abortion, thereby impacting reproductive autonomy and access to care for all individuals capable of pregnancy.
Sponsors
Kevin Avard
R - SD-012
Primary
Ruth Ward
R - SD-008
Co-sponsor
Timothy Lang
R - SD-002
Co-sponsor
Victoria Sullivan
R - SD-018
Co-sponsor
Regina Birdsell
R - SD-019
Co-sponsor
William Gannon
R - SD-023
Co-sponsor
Keith Murphy
R - SD-016
Co-sponsor
Jeanine Notter
R - HD-12-HIL
Co-sponsor
Maureen Mooney
R - HD-12-HIL
Co-sponsor
Kimberly Rice
R - HD-38-HIL
Co-sponsor
Diane Pauer
R - HD-36-HIL
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-01-07 Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; Senate Journal 2
- 2025-01-16 ==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 01/22/2025, Room 100, State House, 10:00 am; Senate Calendar 6
- 2025-02-21 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0530s, 03/06/2025; Vote 5-0; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 11
- 2025-03-06 Committee Amendment # 2025-0530s, Amendment Adopted, Voice Vote; 03/06/2025; Senate Journal 6
- 2025-03-06 Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0530s, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; Senate Journal 6
- 2025-03-28 Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 11 P. 109
- 2025-04-16 Public Hearing: 04/23/2025 09:30 am Legislative Office Building 301-303
- 2025-04-23 Executive Session: 04/30/2025 09:30 am Legislative Office Building 205-207
- 2025-05-01 Retained in Committee
- 2025-10-28 Executive Session: 11/12/2025 10:00 am GP 158
- 2025-11-18 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3091h 11/12/2025 (Vote 10-7; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 51 P. 38
- 2025-11-18 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2026-01-08 Amendment # 2025-3091h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 37
- 2026-01-08 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-3091h: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 188-162 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 37
- 2026-01-08 Referred to Finance 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 39
- 2026-01-08 Referral Waived by Committee Chair per House Rule 47(f) 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 57
- 2026-02-05 Sen. Rochefort Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 02/05/2026; Senate Journal 3
- 2026-02-05 Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, Motion Adopted; 02/05/2026; Senate Journal 3
- 2026-03-17 Enrolled Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess 03/12/2026); Senate Journal 7
- 2026-03-23 Enrolled (in recess of) 03/12/2026 House Journal 8
- 2026-03-30 Signed by the Governor on 03/27/2026; Chapter 15
- 2026-03-30 I. Section 1 Effective 07/01/2027 at 12:01 am
- 2026-03-30 II. Remainder Effective 03/27/2026
Committee Referrals
2025-01-07
Health and Human Services
Senate
2025-03-28
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
House
2026-01-08
Finance
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (4)
2025-01-22
Hearing - Room 100, State House
2025-04-23
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 301-303
2025-04-30
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 205-207
2025-11-12
Hearing - GP 158
Votes
OTPA
2026-01-08
Passed
Yea: 188
Nay: 162
NV: 17
Absent: 28
Individual Votes (395)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Nay | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Nay | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Nay | Arnold Davis | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Absent | Barbara Comtois | Absent |
| Amy Malone | Absent | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | NV | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Nay | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Nay | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Nay | Brian Taylor | Nay |
| Carrie Sorensen | Absent | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carry Spier | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Nay | Charles Foote | Absent |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Nay | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Nay | Cindy Bennett | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Nay | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Nay | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Nay | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Nay | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Love | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | NV | David Lundgren | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Nay | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Nagel | Nay |
| David Fracht | Nay | David Walker | Yea |
| David Luneau | Absent | Deborah Aylward | Absent |
| David Meuse | Nay | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| David Paige | Nay | Denis Murphy | Nay |
| David Preece | Nay | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Absent |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dru Fox | NV | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dylan Germana | Nay | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Nay | Dillon Dumont | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Nay | Donald McFarlane | Yea |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Nay | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Nay | Douglas Trottier | Absent |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | Nay | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Nay | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Nay | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Glen Aldrich | Absent |
| Gary Gilmore | Nay | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | NV | Harry Bean | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Nay | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Summers | NV |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Thibault | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Nay | James Tierney | Yea |
| Jaci Grote | Nay | Jason Osborne | NV |
| James Gruber | Nay | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Roesener | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Absent |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Absent |
| Jared Sullivan | Nay | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Creighton | Absent |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Yea | Jim Fedolfi | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | John Hunt | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John Leavitt | NV |
| John Stone | Nay | John MacDonald | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Potucek | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Nay | John Sellers | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Nay | John Suiter | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Sytek | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Nay | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Nay | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Nay | Julie Miles | Nay |
| Linda Haskins | Nay | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Karel Crawford | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Nay | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Nay | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Nay | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kevin Verville | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Nay | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Laurence Miner | Absent |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Nay | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | NV | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Absent | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Nay | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Mark McLean | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Proulx | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Lovett | Nay | Mary Ford | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Nay | Mary Murphy | Absent |
| Peter Schmidt | Absent | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matthew Coker | Nay |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | NV |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | NV | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Absent | Michael Harrington | Absent |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Seth Miller | Nay | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Stephanie Grund | Nay | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Nay | Mike Bordes | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Nicholas Bridle | Nay |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Peter Morency | Absent |
| Thomas Buco | NV | Peter Varney | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Phyllis Katsakiores | NV |
| Thomas Oppel | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Absent | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| William Darby | Nay | Robley Hall | Yea |
| William Dolan | Nay | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Ross Berry | Yea |
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sandra Panek | Absent | ||
| Sayra Devito | Yea | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | Yea | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | Yea | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | Yea | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Yea | ||
| Steven Smith | NV | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Yea | ||
| Travis Toner | Yea | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Yea | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Yea | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Yea | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — Yea