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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="720" measure-id="id119hr720" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-24" update-date="2025-04-24">
        <title>Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr720v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-04-24">
            <action-date>2025-01-24</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act</strong></p><p>This bill excludes expenses paid for an abortion from qualified medical expenses eligible for reimbursement from certain tax-exempt savings accounts. (Some exceptions apply.)</p><p>Under the bill, amounts paid for an abortion, other than an excluded abortion, are not qualified medical expenses eligible for reimbursement from a health savings account, Archer medical savings account, health flexible spending arrangement, health reimbursement arrangement, or retiree health account.</p><p>The bill defines <em>excluded abortion</em> as any abortion (1) related to a pregnancy that is the result of rape or incest; or (2)&nbsp;performed because a woman is suffering from a physical disorder, injury, or illness (including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself) that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death if an abortion were not performed.</p>]]></summary-text>
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