APPROVED CHAPTER
JUNE 28, 2023 345
BY GOVERNOR PUBLIC LAW
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
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H.P. 393 - L.D. 616
An Act to Protect Health Care Professionals Providing Reproductive Health
Care Services
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 24-A MRSA §2159-F is enacted to read:
§2159-F. Discrimination based solely on provision of reproductive health care
services in medical malpractice insurance
1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the
following terms have the following meanings.
A. "Adverse action" means revocation, suspension or other disciplinary action against
a health care professional's license.
B. "Health care professional who provides reproductive health care services" means a
health care professional who provides, authorizes, recommends, aids, assists, refers for
or otherwise participates in an abortion or any other reproductive health care services
provided for the purpose of an abortion performed on an individual.
2. Discrimination prohibited. An insurer that provides medical malpractice
insurance in this State may not refuse to issue or renew coverage, cancel or restrict coverage
or require the payment of additional charges by a health care professional who provides
reproductive health care services on the sole basis that the health care professional is acting
in violation of another state's law or is subject to an adverse action against the health care
professional's license in another state for a violation of that state's law.
3. Action based on adverse action in another state prohibited. An insurer that
provides medical malpractice insurance in this State may not refuse to issue or renew
coverage, cancel or restrict coverage or require the payment of additional charges by a
health care professional who provides reproductive health care services as a result of an
adverse action against the health care professional's license in another state if the adverse
action is solely based on a violation of the other state's law that prohibits abortion and any
related reproductive health care services in that state or for a resident of that state.
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