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HR 389 107th Congress House

Family Building Act of 2001

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to require coverage for the treatment of infertility.

Introduced: January 31, 2001 See on congress.gov
Health Artificial inseminationCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesCommerceCommunication in medicine
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Discrimination in insuranceDiscrimination in medical careEmployee health benefitsFederal employeesFinance and Financial SectorGovernment Operations and PoliticsGovernment employees' health insuranceHealth insuranceHealth insurance industryHuman embryologyHuman fertilityIn vitro fertilizationLabor and EmploymentMedical technologyObstetrics
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This bill died when the 107th Congress ended
It never became law before the 107th Congress (2001–2002) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 15, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Feb 14, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Civil Service and Agency Organization.
Jan 31, 2001
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 31, 2001
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 15, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Family Building Act of 2001 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan to require health plans to provide benefits for treatment of infertility in accord with specified standards.
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 5 Independent 1
D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Sep 26, 2002
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Feb 26, 2002
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Jun 25, 2001
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Jun 5, 2001
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Jan 31, 2001
 I
Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Jan 31, 2001
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 389: Family Building Act of 2001. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-389/
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"H.R. 389: Family Building Act of 2001." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-389/.
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H.R. 389, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-389/.
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