HR 2062 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Freedom of Choice for Women in the Uniformed Services Act

Introduced May 9, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Loretta Sanchez D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 22, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 9, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Freedom of Choice for Women in the Uniformed Services Act - Limits the prohibition against the use of any medical treatment facility of the Department of Defense to perform an abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to full term or in the case of rape or incest to those facilities in the United States.

Cosponsors 35

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 9, 2003 to Nov 16, 2004, with 30 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	May 9, 2003
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	May 9, 2003
D-MA	Bill Delahunt	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	May 9, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	May 9, 2003
R-CT	Christopher Shays	Original	May 9, 2003
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez	Original	May 9, 2003
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Howard L. Berman	Original	May 9, 2003
D-CA	Jane Harman	Original	May 9, 2003
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	May 9, 2003

Show all 35 cosponsors

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 22, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
May 9, 2003Introduced in House
May 9, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

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