[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1488 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1488

  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for abortions, and for 
                            other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2011

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for abortions, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Hyde Amendment Codification Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING FEDERALLY FUNDED ABORTIONS.

    Title 1 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end 
the following new chapter:

          ``CHAPTER 4--PROHIBITING FEDERALLY FUNDED ABORTIONS

``SEC. 301. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS.

    ``(a) In General.--No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal 
law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for any 
abortion.
    ``(b) Health Benefits Coverage.--No funds authorized or 
appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to 
which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be 
expended for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of 
abortion.

``SEC. 302. TREATMENT OF ABORTIONS RELATED TO RAPE, INCEST, OR 
              PRESERVING THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER.

    ``The limitations established in sections 301 shall not apply to an 
abortion--
            ``(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or 
        incest; or
            ``(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical 
        disorder, physical injury, or physical 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 unless an abortion is 
        performed.''.
                                 <all>