The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee held a public hearing on SB 1255. The bill is the Conscientious Objection Act which would prohibit all forms of discrimination, disqualification, coercion, disability or liability upon such health care providers and institutions that decline to perform any health care service that violates their conscience. The committee heard testimony from Stacey Mitchell, Deputy Secretary of Quality Assurance for the PA Department of Health; Mary Brown, Senior Professional Staff Nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital; and Andy Hoover, Legislative Director for the ACLU of PA.