HR 1369
115th Congress
House
Native Americans
Abortion
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Indian social and development programs
Minority health
Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017
Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 20, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
Mar 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 10, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 6, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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.
Mar 6, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017
This bill reaffirms existing amendments to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and certain other provisions of law relating to health care for Native Americans.
The bill prohibits federal funds provided by those amendments from being used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that covers abortion, except when a women's life would otherwise be endangered or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.