HB1274

The amendment fundamentally redirects the bill from restricting abortion-inducing medicines entering the state to broadly prohibiting the dispensing, distribution, sale, or advertisement of any articles or things intended for unlawful abortion, and removes the civil wrongful death action provisions in favor of simpler criminal penalties and attorney general enforcement. This shift broadens the bill's scope from regulating specific drugs to criminalizing a wider range of abortion-related items and simplifies the penalty structure from per-dose calculations to a flat maximum of ten thousand dollars per violation.

The amendment adds a new Section 1 that makes it a Class 6 felony to administer abortion-inducing substances or instruments to a pregnant person (except when necessary to preserve the mother's life), then reorganizes the bill's remaining sections to address dispensing/distributing abortion-related articles and establishes civil penalties and injunction authority for the attorney general. This BROADENS the bill from solely targeting distribution of abortion materials to also criminalizing the direct administration of abortion-inducing methods.

This change converted the bill from an engrossed working draft to its final enrolled version, removing formatting indicators and legislative process markup while adding official signature pages and attestation sections required for a bill that has completed legislative passage. The substantive content of the bill itself—prohibiting the dispensing and sale of abortion-related articles and establishing criminal penalties and attorney general enforcement powers—remained unchanged.