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SB 749 - This act provides that no employee or any other person, employer, health plan provider or sponsor, health care provider or any other entity shall be compelled to obtain coverage for or provide coverage for abortion, contraception, or sterilization in a health plan if such items or procedures are contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of such employee, health care plan, provider or sponsor, or any other entity or person. No such employee, health care plan, provider or sponsor, or any other entity or person shall be discriminated against by any governmental entity, public official, or entity acting in a governmental capacity for failing to obtain or provide such coverage because of such religious beliefs or moral convictions of such employee, health care plan, provider or sponsor, or any other entity or person. This act requires the Missouri Attorney General to bring a civil action in any appropriate state or federal court whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this act or other law that protects the religious beliefs or moral convictions of such entities or persons have been or is threatened to be violated. Nothing in this act shall preclude a private cause of action by any person or entity aggrieved by a violation of this act or other law that protects the religious beliefs or moral convictions of such entities or persons, or be considered a limitation on any other remedy permitted by law. A court may order any appropriate relief, including recovery of damages, payment of reasonable attorney's fees, costs, and expenses. This act contains an emergency clause. ADRIANE CROUSE
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