
Culture & Conversation Abortion
This law was last updated on Sep 16, 2019
This law is Anti–Choice
H.R. 708
Proposed
Jan 22, 2019
Co-sponsors: 24
Primary Sponsors: 1
Total Sponsors: 25
H.R. 708 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 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.
Related Legislation
Nearly identical to H.R. 4849 (2018), H.R. 489 (2015) and H.R. 2993 (2013), all of which failed to pass.
Latest Action
1/22/19 – Introduced; referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
1/25/19 – Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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