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HB 5202

Health: abortion; abortion reporting requirements; provide for. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 2837. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5201'25

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Greg Alexander and 21 co-sponsors

Requires clinicians to report abortion-related complications or deaths to DHHS using a de-identified form; DHHS aggregates data for the annual abortion statistics report.

referred to second reading
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Bill Summary · HB 5202

Summary — HB 5202 (2025): Abortion-related complication reporting requirements

Status: Introduced March 14, 2025; electronically reproduced 11/04/2025; introduced by Rep. Jennifer Wortz (primary) with multiple cosponsors. Referred to Committee on Health Policy. Tied to HB 5201 (bill cannot take effect unless HB 5201 or related Senate bill is enacted).

Purpose

HB 5202 amends the Michigan Public Health Code by adding section 2837 to require clinicians to report to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) whenever a patient under their care experiences a physical complication or death that is a primary, secondary, or tertiary result of an abortion. The intent is to collect standardized, de‑identified data on abortion-related adverse outcomes for inclusion in the State’s annual abortion statistics.

Key provisions

  • Reporting duty: A health care professional must file a written report with DHHS for each patient who suffers a physical complication or death attributable (primary/secondary/tertiary) to an abortion.
  • Standardized form: DHHS must develop a standardized reporting form that:
    • Excludes the patient’s name, address, and any other information that could reasonably identify the patient.
    • Includes instructions and specifies the time period within which the report must be transmitted (consistent with the reporting time frame set in the companion bill, HB 5201).
    • Be distributed to every urgent care facility and emergency department in Michigan and published on DHHS’s website.
  • Aggregate reporting: DHHS must summarize aggregate data from these reports and include it in the annual abortion statistical report required under section 2835 (created by HB 5201).
  • Record retention and destruction: DHHS must retain each individual report for five years after receipt, then destroy the report and all copies.

Who is affected

  • Health care professionals who perform or treat abortion patients — required to submit reports when complications or death occur.
  • DHHS — required to develop the form, collect reports, produce aggregated statistics, and manage retention/destruction.
  • Urgent care centers and emergency departments — must receive distributed forms.
  • Indirectly affects policymakers, researchers, and public‑health stakeholders who use the aggregated data.

Procedural/timeline notes and fiscal impact

  • HB 5202 is tied to HB 5201 and will not take effect unless that companion bill (or specified Senate bill) is enacted.
  • The fiscal impact is an indeterminate increase in DHHS administrative costs (creating and distributing the form, collecting and summarizing data, producing the annual report). The House Fiscal Agency notes no direct local government fiscal impact.

Additional context

HB 5202 focuses narrowly on reporting of abortion‑related complications or deaths and on protecting patient identity in individual reports. Broader reporting mandates, confidentiality protections, and criminal penalties referenced in the legislative analysis are provisions of the companion bill(s) (notably HB 5201 and HB 5203).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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