[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2539 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2539

To clarify that, in awarding funding under title X of the Public Health 
    Service Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not 
 discriminate against eligible States, individuals, or other entities 
            for refusing to counsel or refer for abortions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2023

Mr. Lankford (for himself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Hagerty, and Mrs. Blackburn) 
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 clarify that, in awarding funding under title X of the Public Health 
    Service Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not 
 discriminate against eligible States, individuals, or other entities 
            for refusing to counsel or refer 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 ``Prevent Discrimination in Title X 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISCRIMINATION.

    Section 1006 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300a-4) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may 
not require any State, individual, or other entity to counsel or refer 
for abortions as a condition for receiving funding under this title.''.
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