A bill for an act relating to protections for medical practitioners and health care institutions, including those related to the exercise of conscience, whistleblower activities, and free speech, and providing penalties.

Summary

The Medical Ethics Defense Act lets medical practitioners, health‑care institutions and payors decline to provide or pay for services that conflict with their moral or religious beliefs, and bars retaliation for those choices. It also adds whistleblower and free‑speech protections, and creates civil remedies and a daily fine if licensing agencies fail to share complaint copies. The bill is now law after the governor’s signature.

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