S 926 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

SASCA

Introduced Mar 23, 2021 Originated Senate Sponsor Patty Murray D-WA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 23, 2021 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 23, 2021
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Survivors' Access to Supportive Care Act or SASCA

This bill sets out programs and requirements to address access and quality issues related to sexual-assault examinations.

Specifically, the bill establishes

  • training and technical assistance programs for health care providers on conducting sexual-assault examinations and treating survivors of sexual assault, including in rural and tribal settings;
  • grants for states to assess the availability of trained providers to perform sexual-assault examinations; and
  • a task force to assist state-level efforts to improve medical forensic evidence collection related to sexual assault.

The bill also requires institutions of higher education to provide information about the availability of sexual-assault examinations to survivors of sexual assault. Additionally, hospitals and specified components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must report on access and quality issues concerning sexual-assault examinations and related services.

Furthermore, HHS must address access to, and the quality of, trained health care providers who conduct sexual-assault examinations in the National Quality Strategy. This is a national effort to align public-sector and private-sector stakeholders to achieve better health and health care.

Cosponsors 21

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 23, 2021 to Oct 27, 2021, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-MNAmy KlobucharOriginalMar 23, 2021
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-NVCatherine Cortez MastoOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-MDChris Van HollenOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-MAElizabeth WarrenOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-NHJeanne ShaheenOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-MTJon TesterOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-NYKirsten E. GillibrandOriginalMar 23, 2021
R-AKLisa MurkowskiOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-VTPatrick J. LeahyOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-CTRichard BlumenthalOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-ORRon WydenOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-RISheldon WhitehouseOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-WITammy BaldwinOriginalMar 23, 2021
D-ILTammy DuckworthOriginalMar 23, 2021
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Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 23, 2021Introduced in Senate
  2. Mar 23, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 2145SASCARelated billMar 24, 2021

Subjects

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  1. Mar 23, 2021Introduced in Senate

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