[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 350 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 350

  To prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental 
                              activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 22, 2007

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental 
                              activities.

    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 ``Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. ABORTION NON-DISCRIMINATION.

    Section 245 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n) is 
amended--
            (1) in the section heading by striking ``and licensing of 
        physicians'' and inserting ``, licensing, and practice of 
        physicians and other health care entities'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``to perform such 
        abortions'' and inserting ``to perform, provide coverage of, or 
        pay for induced abortions''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``includes'' and 
                inserting ``means''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by inserting ``or other health 
                        professional,'' after ``an individual 
                        physician'';
                            (ii) by striking ``and a participant'' and 
                        inserting ``a participant''; and
                            (iii) 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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