PROTECTING CHOICE AND WOMEN’S HEALTH

Action: This bill extended the Violence Against Women’s Act of 1994, which increased criminal punishments, and provided grants to address sexual assault, domestic abuse, and other gender-related violence.

Result: Became law as part of omnibus

Date: 3/8/21

Action: This bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to establish the Interagency Task Force on Coerced Debt, which will be charged with identifying the scope and impact of coerced debt and financial abuse and develop additional recommendations for Congress and regulatory bodies like the CFPB to better protect victims.

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services

Action: This bill protects a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy by making it a federal right, and to protect a health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services. 

Result: Passed the House. Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote 46-48. 

Date: 6/8/21

Action: This resolution affirms the Department of Justice’s memo explaining that the Comstock Act does not prohibit the lawful mailing of abortion drugs like Mifepristone, and strongly condemns restrictions on reproductive healthcare like abortion bans and bans on the shipment of abortion medication.

Result: Announced

Date: 04/09/2024

Action: This bill repeals language from the archaic Comstock Act which has been used by extremists to try and ban the abortion pill . 

Result: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Date: 6/21/2024

Action: This bill bans deceptive advertising for reproductive health services. Specifically, the bill makes deceptive advertising on whether a person provides contraceptives, abortion services, or access to licensed medical professionals subject to federal enforcement.

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Date: 4/20/23

Action: This resolution affirms that access to mifepristone does not violate federal law and that it is essential to protecting the fundamental right for all women to make personal, private health care decisions about their own bodies, lives, and futures.

Result: Introduced/Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date: 04/13/2023

Action: This bill boosted domestic baby formula production and got more on the shelves amid the 2022 shortage across the United States. The bill temporarily lifted tariffs on safe imported ‘base powder,’ a key ingredient in making baby formula.  

Result: Became Public Law.

Date: 9/26/22

Action: This resolution condemns the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and commits to advancing reproductive justice and judicial reform.

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Date: 1/11/23

Action: This letter urges the State of New Jersey to place a restriction on crisis pregnancy centers’ deceptive marketing practices, and supports state legislation to outlaw this type of advertising that masquerades as health care.

Result: Announced

Date: 10/6/2023

Action: This bill ends the discriminatory Hyde Amendment and lifts unjust abortion coverage restrictions for those who depend on Medicaid and other government-sponsored plans to guarantee abortion coverage.

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.

Date: 1/26/23

Action: This bill protects the right to travel across state lines, including for reproductive health care. 

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Date: 2/2/23

Action: This bill allows for the use of foreign assistance funds to provide comprehensive reproductive health care services in developing countries, including abortion services, training, and equipment. 

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Date: 3/22/23

Action: This bill gives individuals the explicit right to access and use contraceptives, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 

Date: 6/14/23

Action: This bill creates a new national standard to protect the digital privacy of personal reproductive or sexual health information.

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.

Date: 5/17/23

Action: This bill creates a federal grant program to fund patient navigators, such as community-based organizations, who can help women access reproductive health care services. .

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Date: 7/20/23

Action: This bill authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to expand and improve maternal and infant health services in minority, low-income, and medically underserved communities. .

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Date: 3/22/24

Action: This bill will guarantee patients’ timely access to birth control, both prescribed and over the counter, at pharmacies nationwide.

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Date: 07/23/2024

Action: This resolution supports the goals of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Further, it expresses that Congress should continue to raise awareness of and support programs to end domestic violence.

Result:Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor

Date:10/26/2021