[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2403 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2403

To prohibit discrimination against health care entities that refuse to 
   provide, provide coverage for, pay for, or provide referrals for 
                               abortions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 1998

 Mr. Santorum introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit discrimination against health care entities that refuse to 
   provide, provide coverage for, pay for, or provide referrals for 
                               abortions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health Care Entity Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. ANTIDISCRIMINATION PROTECTION FOR HEALTH CARE ENTITIES THAT 
              REFUSE TO PROVIDE, PROVIDE COVERAGE OF, PAY FOR, OR REFER 
              FOR ABORTIONS.

    Section 245 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n) is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``regarding 
        training and licensing of physicians'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), strike ``perform such'' and 
        insert ``perform, provide coverage of, or pay for, induced''; 
        and
            (3) in subsection (c)(2)--
                    (A) by inserting ``or other health professional'' 
                after ``individual physician;
                    (B) by striking ``and a participant'' and inserting 
                ``a participant''; and
                    (C) by inserting before the period the following: 
                ``, a hospital, a provider sponsored organization, a 
                health maintenance organization, a health insurance 
                plan or any other kind of health care facility, 
                organization or plan''.
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