S 1045
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Cancer
Child health
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and health-based discrimination
Domestic violence and child abuse
Family planning and birth control
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women's health
Save Women's Preventive Care Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 4, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 4, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Save Women's Preventive Care Act
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to expand preventive care and screening coverage for women under a group health plan.
Under current law, a group health plan must provide preventive care and screening coverage for women as prescribed for in the comprehensive guidelines by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The bill repeals that condition, and instead, specifies the following preventive care and screenings must be covered under a group health plan:
- comprehensive lactation support services;
- screening for adolescents and women for interpersonal and domestic violence;
- screening for gestational diabetes mellitus;
- screening for cervical cancer;
- directed behavioral counseling for sexually transmitted infections;
- prevention education, risk assessment, and screening for HIV;
- contraceptive care;
- screening for breast cancer; and
- well-woman preventive care visits.
The bill authorizes states to require group health plans to provide more generous coverage.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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