This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health to study the effectiveness and quality of reproductive counseling for women considering an abortion. The bureau shall collect information about the predisposition, if any, of persons undergoing counseling required when a minor seeks an abortion. The study must also include an examination of the counseling and information being provided, including whether it is nondirective, objective, factual and comprehended by each client. The study must also identify the number of persons who received counseling and the number of abortions performed after counseling. Finally, the study must include an assessment of the effectiveness of the counseling. Effectiveness is to be assessed in the context of providing information essential to making an informed decision of whether to have an abortion or to carry the pregnancy to term, not whether a particular outcome of the counseling results. The bureau may accept outside funding as long as it is not provided by anyone with a pecuniary or vested interest in the study.

The bureau will report its findings and recommendations, if any, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters no later than February 1, 2007. The joint standing committee of the Legislature have jurisdiction over judiciary matters may report out legislation to the 123rd Legislature related to the findings and recommendations.