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H.R. 5731: Telemedicine Safety Act

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H.R. 5731: Telemedicine Safety Act

112th Congress · introduced 2012-05-10 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2012-05-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Telemedicine Safety Act

Plain summary

Telemedicine Safety Act - Prohibits: (1) knowingly providing a telemedicine abortion across state lines; (2) the use of any funds made available under a telemedicine law for telemedicine abortions or for assistance to facilities that offer telemedicine abortions; or (3) the use of any equipment, infrastructure, or other items purchased using funds made available under a telemedicine law for telemedicine abortions. Defines a "telemedicine abortion" as the use by a health professional of telemedicine services to provide any instrument, medicine, drug, or method to terminate the life of an unborn child or to terminate a pregnancy, without conducting an in-person medical examination of the woman during her pregnancy, with an intention other than: (1) to produce a live birth and preserve the life and health of the child after live birth; or (2) to remove an ectopic pregnancy or to remove an unborn child who died as the result of a spontaneous abortion, accidental trauma, or a criminal assault on the pregnant female or such child.

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

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Official text

Telemedicine Safety Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5] · 58 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), James Lankford (R-OK), Tom Cole (R-OK), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Andy Harris (R-MD), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tim Scott (R-SC), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Robert E. Latta (R-OH)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr5731 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112