Bill
HB 5201
HB 5201 requires abortion providers to submit non-identifying data to DHHS within 7 days, enabling annual aggregated public-health reports while protecting patient privacy.
Status & key dates
- Primary sponsor: Rep. Brad Paquette; numerous cosponsors listed.
- Introduced: March 14, 2025 (House). Passed the House 4/9/2025 (111–0); considered in committee 4/22/2025; left pending and later died on the calendar 6/16/2025. Reintroduced/republished Nov. 4, 2025 and referred to the House Committee on Health Policy.
- Enactment condition: the bill’s enactment is contingent on Senate Bill ____ or House Bill 5202 being enacted (the bill’s own enacting section conditions effectiveness on HB 5202).
Purpose / Intent
HB 5201 creates a statutory, standardized abortion-reporting requirement in the Michigan Public Health Code. Its intent is to collect non‑identifying, case-level data for medical and public-health purposes, require annual aggregated reporting by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and protect patient/provider/facility identities while allowing limited regulatory access.
Who must report / who is affected
- Required reporters: any health care professional who performs an abortion.
- Affected parties: health care providers and facilities that perform abortions; DHHS (collector/aggregator); Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) (limited regulatory access); patients (privacy protections); persons criminally liable for unlawful disclosure.
Key provisions (what the bill would do)
- Mandatory report: Reporter must submit a DHHS-prescribed form to the department within 7 days of the abortion.
- Required data fields (limited list — no identifying information): age; marital status; race and (if applicable) Hispanic ethnicity; city/township, county, and state of residence; facility name/address and type; number of prior full‑term pregnancies; number of prior abortions; gestational age (weeks); abortion method; whether fetal life was evident on separation/removal; date of procedure; method/source of payment; medical specialty of provider; whether prescribed by telemedicine; whether procedure was for a medical emergency; for minors, whether performed under a parental consent waiver; any observed or reported physical complication or death prior to reporting; reasons for abortion (rape, incest, economic reasons, child not wanted, mental/emotional/physical health risk, relationship problems, fetal anomalies, family complete); signature and license number of the professional.
- Privacy safeguards:
- Reports must not contain patient name, SSN, driver’s license, or other identifiers that would allow identification.
- State agencies may not cross‑match databases in ways that would identify individuals seeking/obtaining abortions.
- Statistical information that could reveal identity must not be maintained.
- Record retention and destruction: DHHS must retain each individual report for 5 years and then destroy it (and copies).
- Use and publication:
- Individual reports are for medical/public-health use only and must not be incorporated into permanent vital statistics.
- DHHS must publish an annual aggregated statistical report summarizing submitted data, including:
- gestational-age distribution in 4-week intervals (5–28 weeks),
- abortions on individuals aged 17 and under,
- reported physical complications (per the bill and companion reporting in HB 5202/section 2837).
- Limited disclosure: DHHS may release reports to LARA for regulatory purposes only; LARA must preserve confidentiality under the same limits.
- Penalty for unlawful disclosure: Disclosure of confidential identifying information in violation of the section (or section 2837) is a felony punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment, a fine up to $5,000, or both.
Other definitions / cross‑references
- “Physical complication” is defined as a condition during or after abortion that, by accepted medical standards, requires medical attention (examples: infection, hemorrhage, cervical laceration, uterine perforation, seizure, shock, retained products, loss of consciousness).
- The bill is tied to HB 5202 (reports of complications/deaths) and HB 5203 (updates to sentencing guidelines for the new felony).
Potential impacts
- Administrative: DHHS would need to develop and distribute a standardized reporting form and maintain systems to receive, aggregate, and publish annual statistics; HB 5202 may add reporting workload for complications.
- Privacy/legal: creates statutory privacy protections and a new felony for unauthorized disclosure of identifying information.
- Providers/facilities: required to file timely, limited, non‑identifying reports and to track/record specified data elements.
Note: This summary is based on the introduced version(s) and committee analyses as of November 2025.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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