US Congress Senate Bill 957 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-1)
Status: Introduced on April 27 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-27 - 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 2017 This bill expands the TRICARE health care program 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.) Cost-sharing may not be 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. Such pregnancy prevention care shall include: (1) all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), (2) contraceptive care, (3) sterilization procedures, and (4) patient education and counseling. The Department of Defense shall establish a uniform standard curriculum to be used in family planning education programs for all men and women members of the Armed Forces. Every military treatment facility, upon request, shall provide emergency contraception, information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, and notification of confidentiality rights to any woman who: (1) states, 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 2017

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-27	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

HB2180 (Related) 2017-05-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/957/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s957/BILLS-115s957is.pdf