A resolution supporting women's reproductive health.
Latest action · Feb 27, 2013 Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S947)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedFeb 27, 2013
- Agreed to in SenateNot reached
Summary
Expresses support for efforts to: (1) ensure that women have access to contraception, other preventive services, and medically accurate information necessary to make health care decisions; (2) ensure that women who rely on the family planning and related preventive health grant programs of the Public Health Service Act, title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and non-profit providers like Planned Parenthood continue to get cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care services; (3) ensure that women have access to affordable insurance coverage for all pregnancy-related health care needs; and (4) reduce health disparities between men and women and among women of different races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.
Cosponsors 13
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 27, 2013 to Sep 17, 2013, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Feb 27, 2013 |
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Original | Feb 27, 2013 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Feb 27, 2013 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Feb 27, 2013 |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Mar 5, 2013 | |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Mar 6, 2013 | |
| D-MT | Max Baucus | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Apr 18, 2013 | |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Apr 18, 2013 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Apr 18, 2013 | |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Jun 18, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Sep 17, 2013 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Feb 27, 2013Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S947)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Cancer
- Family planning and birth control
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Medicaid
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Women's health
- Women's rights
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- Feb 27, 2013Introduced in Senate
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