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H.R. 6315: Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2018

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H.R. 6315: Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-07-06 · Health · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-07-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 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.

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Official title

Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2018

Plain summary

Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2018 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support to public or nonprofit entities to expand certain preventive health services, with an emphasis on increasing access to cancer screening, particularly for women of color. The bill reauthorizes through FY2022: (1) programs related to breast and gynecologic cancers under Medicaid and family planning programs, and (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. HHS must establish a demonstration grant program to train health care providers regarding breast and gynecologic cancer screening. HHS must study and report on access to women's preventive cancer screening, including cancer rates by state, cancer screening by state, and estimated federal savings achieved through early detection of breast and gynecologic cancer.

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Official text

Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34] · 17 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Darren Soto (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Pete Aguilar (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34] reported raising $1.3 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Authorization
A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr6315 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115