CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The state Senate voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring parental notification for teenagers to get abortions.

The 2003 law, which has been bogged down in legal fights, required abortion providers to notify at least one parent 48 hours or more before performing an abortion on a minor.

The Senate’s 15-9 vote comes after the House passed the measure 226-130. Gov. John Lynch says he will sign it.

Senate Majority Leader Joseph Foster said the issue before lawmakers was about an unconstitutional law, not abortion or parental rights. “This is about a bill that, when adopted, was known by the Legislature to be unconstitutional,” he said.

The law was challenged by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, and a federal judge declared it unconstitutional in late 2003 because it lacks a provision to forgo notification in emergencies where the health of the mother is at stake.

The state appealed and the U.S. Supreme Court sent it back to the federal court in New Hampshire to determine if the law could be salvaged. U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico put the case on hold while the Legislature acted.