3.0.0 47 2025-12-05T22:53:53Z 2025-12-05T22:53:53Z Senate S S 2025-01-09 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/47 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-01-09T19:48:33Z 119 2874 HR 2025-04-10 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2025-01-09 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-01-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001089 Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] Josh Hawley R MO N Health Abortion 2025-02-26T14:38:02Z Administrative law and regulatory procedures 2025-02-26T14:37:47Z Department of Health and Human Services 2025-02-26T14:37:43Z Employment discrimination and employee rights 2025-02-26T14:38:17Z Health personnel 2025-02-26T14:38:12Z Health programs administration and funding 2025-02-26T14:38:39Z Higher education 2025-02-26T14:38:44Z Medicaid 2025-02-26T14:38:54Z Medical education 2025-02-26T14:38:28Z Medical ethics 2025-02-26T14:39:00Z Medical research 2025-02-26T14:38:23Z Medicare 2025-02-26T14:38:49Z Religion 2025-02-26T14:37:57Z Sex and reproductive health 2025-02-26T14:38:06Z State and local government operations 2025-02-26T14:38:32Z Health 2025-02-10T17:32:15Z

00 2025-01-09 Introduced in Senate 2025-03-17T16:18:23Z <p><strong>Defense of Conscience in Health Care Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a final rule on protecting statutory conscience rights in health care that is identical or equivalent to the rule titled<em>&nbsp;</em><em>Protecting Statutory Conscience&nbsp;Rights in Health Care; Delegations of&nbsp;Authority</em>, <em></em>which was scheduled to take effect on July 22, 2019, but was vacated by courts. </p><p>Federal law&nbsp;generally prohibits discrimination based on conscience or religious beliefs with respect to federally funded health care programs, including prohibiting recipients of certain federal funding from requiring health care providers&nbsp;to take&nbsp;actions that they find religiously or morally objectionable (e.g., providing&nbsp;referrals for abortions).&nbsp;</p><p>In 2019,&nbsp;HHS issued a final rule revising the&nbsp;applicable&nbsp;regulations, including imposing certification and cooperation requirements, as well as establishing additional enforcement provisions and penalties. However, this rule was later&nbsp;vacated by federal courts and never took effect. In 2024,&nbsp;HHS issued another final rule that generally applied&nbsp;a pre-2019 enforcement framework while also maintaining certain aspects of the 2019 rule (e.g., specifically designating HHS' Office for Civil Rights as the entity with the authority to handle relevant complaints).</p><p>The bill requires HHS to reinstate&nbsp;the 2019 rule in its entirety. <br/></p>

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