To express the sense of the Senate to enact Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.

SA 292. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Wicker, Mr. McConnell,
and Mr. Blunt) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to
the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013,
and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years
2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title V, add the following:

SEC. 5__. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING CHILD INTERSTATE
ABORTIONS.

(a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
(1) laws requiring parental notification or consent prior
to an abortion, or in the alternative judicial waiver, are in
effect in more than half of the States, but these laws are
often circumvented by interstate activity in which minors
travel or are transported across State lines to avoid laws
requiring parental involvement;
(2) abortion providers use targeted advertising to minors
across State lines, using avoidance of parental notification
requirements as a selling point;
(3) when an abortion provider performs an abortion on a
minor without parental notification, the provider is likely
to lack the complete medical history of the minor, and
parents of the minor are unaware of the need to watch for
complications that may develop after the abortion when the
minor is sent back to her State of residence, far from the
provider; and
(4) parental notification and parental consent laws are
supported by overwhelming majorities of the public in the
United States.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that--
(1) a physician who performs or induces an abortion on a
minor who is a resident of a State other than the State in
which the abortion is performed should be required by

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Federal law to provide, or cause an agent of the physician to
provide, at least 24 hours advance notice to a parent of the
minor before the abortion is performed;
(2) such a Federal requirement for interstate parental
notification should not apply if --
(A) the minor declares in a signed written statement that
she is the victim of sexual abuse, neglect, or physical abuse
by a parent, and, before an abortion is performed on the
minor, the physician notifies the authorities specified to
receive reports of child abuse or neglect by the law of the
State in which the minor resides of the known or suspected
abuse or neglect;
(B) the abortion is necessary to save the life of a minor
whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical
injury, or physical illness, including a life endangering
physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy
itself, provided that the attending physician or an agent of
the physician notifies a parent of the minor in writing that
an abortion was performed on the minor and of the
circumstances of the abortion within 24 hours;
(C) the abortion is performed or induced in a State that
has in force a law requiring parental involvement in the
abortion decision of a minor and the physician complies with
the requirements of that law;
(D) the physician is presented with documentation that
shows with a reasonable degree of certainty that a court in
the State of residence of the minor has authorized that the
minor be allowed to procure an abortion; or
(E) the minor is physically accompanied by a person who
presents the physician or an agent of the physician with
documentation showing with a reasonable degree of certainty
that he or she is in fact a parent of that minor;
(3) a parent who suffers harm by a violation of the
interstate notification requirement should be entitled to
obtain appropriate relief in a civil action, unless that
parent has committed an act of incest with the minor;
(4) whoever has committed an act of incest with a minor and
knowingly transports the minor across a State line with the
intent that the minor obtain an abortion should be subject to
imprisonment of up to 1 year for such transportation, in
addition to any other penalties; and
(5) Congress should enact S. 369, the Child Interstate
Abortion Notification Act (CIANA), to accomplish these
purposes.
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