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H.R. 2180: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017

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H.R. 2180: Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-04-26 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-04-26 · 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.
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Official title

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017

Plain summary

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017 This bill expands the TRICARE health care program 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.) Cost-sharing may not be 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. Such pregnancy prevention care shall include: (1) all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), (2) contraceptive care, (3) sterilization procedures, and (4) patient education and counseling. The Department of Defense shall establish a uniform standard curriculum to be used in family planning education programs for all men and women members of the Armed Forces. Every military treatment facility, upon request, shall provide emergency contraception, information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, and notification of confidentiality rights to any woman who: (1) states, 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.

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Official text

Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] · 67 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Mark Takano (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Ami Bera (D-CA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL) and 7 more.

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Record fed-us-cong115-hr2180 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115