Taxpayer Conscience Protection Act of 2018 (H.R. 4849)

H.R. 4849 would require states to report information on Medicaid payments to abortion providers.

The bill would require each state that makes a Medicaid payment from federal funds to submit to the Secretary a report on all such payments, and publish the report on a public Internet website of the state.

The report should include the following information for each payment:

• The amount of the payment;
• The purposes for which the payment was made;
• A comparison of the amount with the amount of any such payment to the provider involved in any prior fiscal year; and
• The number of abortions performed during the fiscal year by the provider involved.

The Secretary would then be required to submit to Congress, and publish on a public Internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a report that contains all the submitted reports from the year, along with a summary.

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Related Legislation

Identical to H.R. 489 (2015) and H.R. 2993 (2013), both of which failed to pass.

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