HR 3206 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013

Introduced Sep 27, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Yvette D. Clarke D-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 27, 2013 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedSep 27, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to: (1) support the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health in developing countries and to ensure that individuals and couples can freely and responsibly determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children and have the means to do so; (2) reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion in developing countries and provide care for women experiencing injury or illness from complications of unsafe abortion; (3) ensure that sexual and reproductive health services are provided in developing countries at every phase of a humanitarian emergency; and (4) ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care for young people in developing countries.

Directs the President to implement a strategy to improve and create linkages among the various components of sexual and reproductive health to ensure that individual men and women are provided with a continuum of appropriate sexual and reproductive health services.

States that assistance under this Act shall: (1) promote coordination between and among donors, the private sector, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and governments in order to support sexual and reproductive health programs in developing countries; and (2) be used for the conduct of formative research and to monitor and evaluate program effectiveness.

Cosponsors 39

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 27, 2013 to Dec 2, 2013, with 26 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAmi BeraOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-FLDebbie Wasserman SchultzOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-WIGwen MooreOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-NYHakeem S. JeffriesOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-MAJames P. McGovernOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-VAJames P. MoranOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-CAJared HuffmanOriginalSep 27, 2013
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.OriginalSep 27, 2013
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  1. Sep 27, 2013Introduced in House
  2. Sep 27, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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  1. Sep 27, 2013Introduced in House

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