[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2836 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2836

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking any 
  action to implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the final 
rule, entitled ``Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; 
                      Delegations of Authority''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 12, 2019

  Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Hassan, Ms. 
   Hirono, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Markey, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. 
 Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Van Hollen, 
   Mr. Brown, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Harris, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. 
  Warren, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. 
  Kaine, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Smith, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. 
    Cardin) 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 the Secretary of Health and Human Services from taking any 
  action to implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the final 
rule, entitled ``Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; 
                      Delegations of Authority''.

    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 ``Put Patients First Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING IMPLEMENTATION OF FINAL RULE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services may not take any action to implement, enforce, or 
otherwise give effect to the final rule, entitled ``Protecting 
Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority'' 
(84 Fed. Reg. 23170-23272, May 21, 2019).
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