To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Agriculture, Foreign Policy.
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 Right to Contraception Act .
- Section id0c657d43c2084aa88325dc5c54ee77c2: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term contraception means an action taken to prevent pregnancy, including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness-based...
- Section ide4e83e01f0264f708484f00ee73188ff: 3. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— to provide a clear and comprehensive right to contraception; to permit individuals to seek and obtain contraceptives...
- Section idfa1795ef88804eb38d7ca3839b5fb5cd: 4. Permitted services An individual has a statutory right under this Act to obtain contraceptives and to voluntarily engage in contraception, free from...
- Section id8946a729923640a884f3cfd3e517cb08: 5. Applicability and preemption Except as provided in subsection (c), this Act supersedes and applies to the law of the Federal Government and each State, and...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Agriculture, Foreign Policy
Primary Purpose
This bill, To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception., 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
IntroducedRead the second time and placed on the calendar
Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, …
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?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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