Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017
Latest action · Mar 20, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 6, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017
This bill reaffirms existing amendments to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and certain other provisions of law relating to health care for Native Americans.
The bill prohibits federal funds provided by those amendments from being used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that covers abortion, except when a women's life would otherwise be endangered or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 20, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Mar 17, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 10, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 6, 2017Introduced in House
- Mar 6, 2017Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 6, 2017Introduced in House
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