S. 1114: A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

S. 1114: A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

115th Congress · introduced 2017-05-11 · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2919-2920)

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Where it came from: introduced 2017-05-11 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2919-2920) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

Plain summary

This bill nullifies Executive Order 13798, titled "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty." The executive order: (1) requires the executive branch to enforce federal law protections for religious freedom and to protect persons and organizations that engage in religious and political speech; (2) prohibits the Department of the Treasury from taking adverse action against individuals, houses of worship, or religious organizations based on their speech about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, a candidate for public office; and (3) requires Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services to consider issuing amended regulations to address conscience-based objections to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's preventive-care mandate, which requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to provide coverage, and not impose cost sharing requirements, for contraception and other additional preventive care and screenings for women.

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Official text

A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] · 22 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Jack Reed (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Brian Schatz (D-HI)

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Rulemaking: The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s1114.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>

Record fed-us-cong115-s1114 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115