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S. 3723: Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act

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S. 3723: Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act

111th Congress · introduced 2010-08-05 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2010-08-05 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act

Plain summary

Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit federal funds from being to used to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion services. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services and plans receiving federal funds must keep federal funds segregated from any funds for abortion services.) Requires any qualified health benefit plan offered through an Exchange that includes coverage for abortions to also offer a qualified health benefit plan through the Exchange that is identical in every respect except that it does not cover abortions.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Excluding Abortion Coverage from Health Reform Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] · 27 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Mike Crapo (R-ID), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), James E. Risch (R-ID), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-s3723 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111