SF1921 requires the licensure of  health care facilities that perform at least ten abortions per month.

Section 1 (145.479), subdivision 1, requires a clinic, health center, or other facility in which the pregnancies of ten or more women known to be pregnant are willfully terminated or aborted each month to be licensed by the Commissioner of Health.  This subdivision also requires the Commissioner of Health to adopt rules necessary for licensure.

Subdivision 2 requires the Commissioner of Health to perform inspections and investigations as deemed necessary.  This subdivision also states that any information received by the commissioner through filed reports, inspections, or otherwise authorized, is private data on individuals and must not be disclosed publicly in such a manner as to identify individual patients.  The commissioner may disclose this data to another state agency for purposes of investigation of professional or business practices in a licensed facility.  Any state agency that receives this data must not publically disclose individual patient information.

Subdivision 3 requires every facility licensed under this section, or any premise included in an application for licensure, must be open at reasonable times for inspection by the Commissioner of Health.  No notice is required to be provided prior to the inspection.  

Subdivision 4 sets a license fee (currently blank) for a facility, and sets forth a process for collection and deposit of license fees.

Subdivision 5 provides for severability.

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