S 154 113th Congress Senate Health Abortion Comprehensive health care Federal preemption Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Public contracts and procurement

PROTECT Act

Introduced: January 24, 2013 See on congress.gov

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

Jan 24, 2013

Introduced in Senate

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Preventing the Offering of Elective Coverage of Taxpayer-Funded-Abortion Act of 2013 or PROTECT Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in entering into contracts with health insurance issuers, to ensure that no multi-state qualified health plan offered in a health benefit exchange provides coverage of abortion. Excepts from such limitation: (1) a pregnancy that results from rape or incest; or (2) a case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.

Preempts any state law requiring coverage of or funding for abortions in multi-state qualified health plans.

What's happening now January 24, 2013

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

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