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H.R. 742: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

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H.R. 742: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-02-04 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-02-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] · 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 Military Personnel. 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

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

Plain summary

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015 Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the prevention of pregnancy. (Currently, such care is limited to certain female members of the uniformed service or a reserve component performing active duty or certain servicewomen performing inactive-duty training.) Prohibits cost-sharing from being imposed or collected for such pregnancy prevention care, including for any method of contraception provided through a facility of the uniformed services, the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, or the national mail-order pharmacy program. Provides for such pregnancy prevention care to include all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling. Directs the DOD Secretary to: (1) ensure that every military treatment facility has a sufficient stock of a broad range of FDA-approved methods of contraception to dispense to any women members of the Armed Forces and female covered beneficiaries who receive care through such facility, (2) disseminate clinical practice guidelines and decision support tools to DOD-employed health care providers, (3) ensure that women members of the Armed Forces have access to comprehensive counseling on contraception during health care visits, and (4) establish uniform curriculum to be used in family planning education programs for all men and women members of the Armed Forces. Requires questions regarding family planning services and counseling to be incorporated into DOD health surveys. Requires every military treatment facility, upon request, to provide emergency contraception, or information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, to any woman who: (1) states to personnel that she is a victim of sexual assault or is accompanied by another individual who states that the woman is a victim of sexual assault, or (2) is reasonably believed to be a survivor of sexual assault.

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

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Official text

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] · 80 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ami Bera (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), James A. Himes (D-CT), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and 20 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr742 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114