HR6191-119

What This Bill Does

The No Taxpayer Funded Abortion Travel for Illegal Aliens Act bars use of Federal funds to assist a person covered by the bill’s “illegal alien” definition in accessing covered abortion services. The covered expense definition is broad: it includes not only the abortion service itself but expenses related to access, including travel to or from the location, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, doula care, and patient education and information services. The immigration definition covers aliens who are inadmissible under specified Immigration and Nationality Act provisions for unlawful presence, fraud or misrepresentation, or lacking required documents, or who are deportable under specified provisions related to inadmissibility at entry or status violations. The bill does not create a new private right of action or criminal penalty in the text shown; the operative mechanism is a Federal funding restriction.

Who Benefits and How

Taxpayers opposed to Federal abortion funding benefit because Federal money could not be used for covered abortion access assistance for the defined population. Federal agencies administering immigration-related assistance benefit from a clear statutory funding restriction for covered abortion travel and support costs. Congressional appropriations overseers benefit because the covered expense list identifies travel, lodging, meals, childcare, translation, doula, and information services.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Unauthorized immigrants seeking abortion services lose access to federally funded assistance for travel, lodging, meals, childcare, translation, doula care, and patient education related to abortion access. Abortion travel assistance nonprofits that rely on Federal funds must segregate or stop covered support for people within the bill’s immigration definition. Federally funded health care providers must ensure Federal dollars are not used for covered abortion access assistance for the defined population. Federal grant administrators must monitor funding conditions and covered expense categories.

Key Provisions

• Prohibits Federal funds from assisting covered unauthorized immigrants in accessing abortion services.
• Defines covered abortion services to include travel, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, doula care, and patient education or information services.
• Defines the covered immigration population using specified inadmissibility and deportability provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
• Creates a Federal funding restriction rather than a new criminal penalty in the text shown.