US Congress Senate Bill 2687 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1-1)
Status: Introduced on July 30 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-07-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Pending: Senate Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014 - Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the prevention of pregnancy. (Currently, such care is limited to certain female members of the uniformed service or a reserve component performing active duty or certain servicewomen performing inactive-duty training.) Prohibits cost-sharing from being imposed or collected for such pregnancy prevention care, including for any method of contraception provided through a facility of the uniformed services, the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, or the national mail-order pharmacy program. Provides for such pregnancy prevention care to include all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling. Directs the DOD Secretary to: (1) ensure that every military treatment facility has a sufficient stock of a broad range of FDA-approved methods of contraception to dispense to any women members of the Armed Forces and female covered beneficiaries who receive care through such facility; (2) disseminate clinical practice guidelines and decision support tools to DOD-employed health care providers; (3) ensure that women members of the Armed Forces have access to contraception counseling during health care visits; and (4) establish an education program for all members of the Armed Forces, including both men and women members, consisting of a uniform standard curriculum on family planning. Requires questions regarding family planning services and counseling to be incorporated into DOD health surveys. Requires every military treatment facility, upon request, to provide emergency contraception, or information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, to any woman who: (1) states to personnel that she is a victim of sexual assault or is accompanied by another individual who states that the woman is a victim of sexual assault, or (2) is reasonably believed to be a survivor of sexual assault.

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-07-30	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

HB5524 (Same As) 2014-09-17 - Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2687/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2687/BILLS-113s2687is.pdf