HR 771 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 2017

Introduced Jan 31, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Barbara Lee D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 10, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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.

  1. IntroducedJan 31, 2017
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act of 2017

This bill requires the federal government: (1) to ensure coverage for abortion care in public health insurance programs including Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); (2) as an employer or health plan sponsor, to ensure coverage for abortion care for participants and beneficiaries; and (3) as a provider of health services, to ensure that abortion care is made available to individuals who are eligible to receive services.

The federal government may not prohibit, restrict, or otherwise inhibit insurance coverage of abortion care by state or local governments or by private health plans. State and local governments may not prohibit, restrict, or otherwise inhibit insurance coverage of abortion care by private health plans.

Cosponsors 137

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 31, 2017 to Dec 21, 2018, with 103 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAdam B. SchiffOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-WAAdam SmithOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-CAAlan S. LowenthalOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-NCAlma S. AdamsOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-CAAmi BeraOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-TXBeto O'RourkeOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-ILBill FosterOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-NJBonnie Watson ColemanOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-ILBradley Scott SchneiderOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-MIBrenda L. LawrenceOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-LACedric L. RichmondOriginalJan 31, 2017
D-MEChellie PingreeOriginalJan 31, 2017
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 10, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Feb 3, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Jan 31, 2017Introduced in House
  4. Jan 31, 2017Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: Health.

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Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 31, 2017Introduced in House

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