HB 2681 Arizona House · 57th Legislature - First Regular Session

abortion-inducing drugs; requirements

Arizona's HB 2681 establishes requirements for physicians prescribing medication abortions. It mandates in-person examinations, pregnancy verification, Rh blood testing, and disclosure of physical/psychological side effects (including bleeding and seeing pregnancy tissue) before providing abortion-inducing drugs. Physicians must also schedule a 7-14 day follow-up visit to confirm the abortion is complete, document efforts to ensure the visit occurs, and provide the patient with the contact information of an associated physician for complications. The bill prohibits mailing or delivering abortion drugs via courier and creates civil liability for violations, allowing patients to seek $5,000 statutory damages plus medical costs and attorney fees. It explicitly states this law does not create a right to abortion or make unlawful abortions legal.

Issues: ✗ Healthcare

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 29, 2025 Last action Mar 19, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced Version → House Engrossed Version · 5 edits · Mar 4, 2025

MODERATE

The bill was formatted and reorganized from an introduced version to a house engrossed version, with substantive text changes including the addition of new subsections clarifying exceptions to civil liability for fathers and adding a provision preventing civil suits against women who received abortion-inducing drugs in violation of the law. The text also includes legislative findings and statutory construction language clarifying that the bill does not create a right to abortion.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include additional exceptions for fathers in civil liability cases and to explicitly prevent civil actions against women who received abortion-inducing drugs in violation of the law.

ELIGIBILITY

Added exceptions to civil liability for fathers when the pregnancy resulted from sexual assault, incest, domestic violence, or when parental rights have been terminated.

Added a new provision preventing civil actions from being brought against women who received abortion-inducing drugs in violation of the law.

REQUIREMENT

Reorganized and reformatted the bill text with new section numbers and subsections (D through J) while maintaining the core physician requirements for abortion-inducing drugs.

DEFINITION

Added a new definition for 'abortion-inducing drug' to clarify that it includes any medicine, drug, or substance used for medication abortion.

TECHNICAL

Added legislative findings explaining why physician requirements are necessary and statutory construction language clarifying the bill does not create a right to abortion.

Floor votes · House Mar 4, 2025

How they voted

32–26

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 60

Mar 4, 2025

D Democratic27

26 Nay 1

96% Nay

R Republican33

32 Yea 1

96% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Mar 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

lower

1 primary · 17 co-sponsors