Adopts the Sexual Assault Emergency Care Act, requiring hospitals to provide certain information and services to sexual assault survivors.
The bill adopts the Sexual Assault Emergency Care Act, which mandates hospitals to provide sexual assault survivors with medically and factually accurate information about emergency contraception, both written and oral, in a language the survivor understands. Hospitals must also offer a complete course of emergency contraception unless the survivor declines. The Department of Health and Human Services reviews complaints about hospitals' compliance with the act, issuing warnings for first complaints and imposing fines for subsequent substantiated complaints.
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