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HB232 Relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.

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Relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
💰

Your Wallet

No direct financial impact, though patients may need to seek care elsewhere at additional cost.

3
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Your Community

In rural areas with few providers, conscience refusals could effectively eliminate access to legal medical care.

3
⚖️

Your Freedom

While protecting provider conscience, it restricts patients' ability to access legal medical care, particularly for reproductive and LGBTQ+ healthcare.

Status

House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1624s (Rep. Lynn): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 179-154 05/20/2026 House Journal 14

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Mark Pearson (R)

The Short Version

Expands 'conscience' protections allowing medical professionals to refuse to provide care that conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs. Passed House on party-line vote. Under Senate review. Could allow denial of reproductive, LGBTQ+, and other healthcare services.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Medical professionals with religious objections to certain procedures
  • ▲ Religious freedom advocates

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Patients seeking reproductive healthcare
  • ▼ LGBTQ+ individuals seeking care
  • ▼ Patients in rural areas with limited provider options

Roll Call Detail (2 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 2 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 183 for , 6 against ) , Democrats opposed it ( 1 for , 157 against ) , and Independents opposed it ( 1 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Concur with other chamber's amendments 2026-05-21
Passed

YES = Accept the other chamber's amendments. NO = Reject the other chamber's amendments.

177R + 2D
Voted to Concur (179)
5R + 148D + 1I
Voted to Not Concur (154)
29
Absent
31
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (179)

Republicans (177)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (154)

Republicans (5)
Democrats (148)
Independents (1)
Absent (29)

Allan Howland (D) , Brian Sullivan (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Chris Muns (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Eric Gallager (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Leavitt (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Liz Barbour (R) , Lorie Ball (R) , Lucy Weber (D) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Mark McLean (R) , Matthew Coker (R) , Melissa Litchfield (R) , Nicholas Bridle (R) , Paige Beauchemin (D) , Peter Leishman (D) , Raymond Plante (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Stephen Pearson (R) , Thomas Buco (D)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-01-08
Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

183R + 1D
Voted to Pass (184)
6R + 157D + 1I
Voted Against (164)
29
Absent
18
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (184)

Republicans (183)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (164)

Republicans (6)
Democrats (157)
Independents (1)
Absent (29)

Allison Knab (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Carrie Sorensen (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Luneau (D) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Glen Aldrich (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jeremy Slottje (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John MacDonald (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Nicole Leapley (D) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Schmidt (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Terry Roy (R) , Toni Weinstein (D)

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