{"id":7346,"date":"2017-07-10T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:02:57","slug":"arkansas-panel-votes-to-study-health-care-conscience-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7346","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas panel votes to study health-care conscience bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arkansas News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">John Lyon<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE ROCK \u2014 A legislative panel voted Monday to conduct a study in the interim between sessions on a bill that would allow a health-care provider to refuse to provide a service that violates his or her conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The House and Senate committees on public health, welfare and labor voted, without discussion, to study legislation by Rep. Brandt Smith, R-Jonesboro, that failed to advance out of the House public health panel during this year&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/usa-arkansas-003.aspx\">House Bill 1628<\/a>, titled The Healthcare Freedom of Conscience Act, would have allowed a person or institution that provides health care to refuse to participate in a non-emergency service that contradicts his or her religious, moral or ethical principles. It would have prohibited the person or institution from being punished for the refusal through criminal, civil or administrative action. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasnews.com\/news\/20170710\/arkansas-panel-votes-to-study-health-care-conscience-bill\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas News John Lyon LITTLE ROCK \u2014 A legislative panel voted Monday to conduct a study in the interim between sessions on a bill that would allow a health-care provider to refuse to provide a service that violates his or her conscience. The House and Senate committees on public health, welfare and labor voted, without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arkansas panel votes to study health-care conscience bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,760,28],"tags":[423],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-proposed-laws","category-usa","tag-arkansas"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Arkansas panel votes to study health-care conscience bill - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7346\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arkansas panel votes to study health-care conscience bill - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arkansas News John Lyon LITTLE ROCK \u2014 A legislative panel voted Monday to conduct a study in the interim between sessions on a bill that would allow a health-care provider to refuse to provide a service that violates his or her conscience. 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