Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act.
- Section idF5FAED1C0AAC4D939D1264A8065BE320: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
- Section id3f12cc8c76024a3182c616aa57584315: 3. Discrimination by abortion against an unborn child on the basis of Down syndrome prohibited Chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding...
- Section id0b9c495849cb47088d7e8276c5207e42: 251. Discrimination by abortion against an unborn child on the basis of Down syndrome prohibited In this section: The term abortion means the act of using or...
- Section id95ebe560511e4915a7e887067bbc214a: 4. Severability If any portion of this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
This bill, Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cramer, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a chromosomal disorder associated with— an extra copy of the chromosome 21, in whole or in part
a chromosomal disorder associated with—(A)an extra copy of the chromosome 21, in whole or in part
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