HR 742 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

Introduced Feb 4, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Jackie Speier D-CA

Latest action · Aug 13, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Progress

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IntroducedFeb 4, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the prevention of pregnancy. (Currently, such care is limited to certain female members of the uniformed service or a reserve component performing active duty or certain servicewomen performing inactive-duty training.) Prohibits cost-sharing from being imposed or collected for such pregnancy prevention care, including for any method of contraception provided through a facility of the uniformed services, the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, or the national mail-order pharmacy program.

Provides for such pregnancy prevention care to include all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling.

Directs the DOD Secretary to: (1) ensure that every military treatment facility has a sufficient stock of a broad range of FDA-approved methods of contraception to dispense to any women members of the Armed Forces and female covered beneficiaries who receive care through such facility, (2) disseminate clinical practice guidelines and decision support tools to DOD-employed health care providers, (3) ensure that women members of the Armed Forces have access to comprehensive counseling on contraception during health care visits, and (4) establish uniform curriculum to be used in family planning education programs for all men and women members of the Armed Forces.

Requires questions regarding family planning services and counseling to be incorporated into DOD health surveys.

Requires every military treatment facility, upon request, to provide emergency contraception, or information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, to any woman who: (1) states to personnel that she is a victim of sexual assault or is accompanied by another individual who states that the woman is a victim of sexual assault, or (2) is reasonably believed to be a survivor of sexual assault.

Cosponsors 80

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 4, 2015 to Sep 22, 2016; 65 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CT	James A. Himes	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-MI	Sander M. Levin	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Feb 4, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Feb 5, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Feb 11, 2015
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Feb 13, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Feb 24, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Feb 27, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Mar 4, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Mar 16, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price		Mar 19, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Mar 19, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Mar 25, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Apr 13, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Apr 13, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		May 1, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jun 1, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng		Sep 22, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Feb 4, 2015
	Military Personnel Subcommittee	Referred Aug 13, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 13, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Feb 4, 2015Introduced in House
Feb 4, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 19, February 4, 2015, page H814.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 114-16	CAPITAL FORMATION AND REDUCING SMALL BUSINESS BURDENS92 pages	Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee	Mar 24, 2015
Serial No. 114-7	REAUTHORIZING THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION215 pages	Agriculture Committee	Mar 24, 2015–Apr 14, 2015

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R44231	Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Proposed Reauthorization in the 114th Congress Archived	Report	Aug 3, 2016

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 358	Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015	Identical bill	Feb 4, 2015

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that women members of the Armed Forces and their families have access to the contraception they need in order to promote the health and readiness of all members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 4, 2015Introduced in House

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