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S 85 111th Congress Senate

Title X Family Planning Act

Official title: A bill to amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions.

Introduced: January 12, 2009 See on congress.gov
Health AbortionCongressional oversightFamily planning and birth controlHealth facilities and institutionsHealth programs administration and funding
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Jan 6, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jan 6, 2009
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action January 6, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. (Current law prohibits such funds from being used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.) Excludes hospitals from such provisions as long as the hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a list of grantees who perform abortions, regardless of how such abortions are funded. Makes such a grantee ineligible for family planning funds for subsequent fiscal years unless the grantee certifies that neither the grantee nor any subgrantee performs abortions that are not explicitly permitted under this Act.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 85: Title X Family Planning Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-85/
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"S. 85: Title X Family Planning Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-85/.
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S. 85, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-85/.
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