Setting up a potential test case for Florida’s recently revamped Supreme Court, a House panel approved a bill that would require pregnant girls under age 18 to get consent from their parents before obtaining abortions.

Members of the House Health and Human Services Committee spent more than two hours debating the bill and hearing from dozens of members of the public before voting along party lines to pass the measure (HB 265). It was the only committee stop for the bill, meaning it can be voted on by the full House when the 2020 legislative session begins in January.

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