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S 5174 117th Congress Senate Health

Women's Health Patient Navigator Act of 2022

Introduced: December 1, 2022 Introduced by: Cortez Masto, Catherine Democratic · Nevada See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 1, 2022
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Women's Health Patient Navigator Act of 2022

This bill provides funding for patient navigator grants to assist individuals in accessing abortion services.

The Department of Health and Human Services must award the grants to state, tribal, or local governments; nonprofits; or community organizations that offer unbiased and medically accurate programs, services, or activities to connect individuals with abortion services. Grant-funded activities include, among others, coordinating the scheduling, financing, and other logistics of abortion services.

Further, the bill prohibits individuals, entities, and states from preventing or otherwise disadvantaging an entity that is eligible to receive a grant from carrying out activities to assist individuals with accessing abortion services, including in any state in which those services are not lawful. Such activities include providing (or assisting in the provision of) abortion care and other reproductive health services that are either (1) lawful in the state where the services are provided, or (2) provided to an individual who does not reside in the state where the services are provided. The bill allows for enforcement of this prohibition through private lawsuits.

What's happening now December 1, 2022

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

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 8
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Bennet, Michael F.
Colorado · Dec 1, 2022
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Dec 1, 2022
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Duckworth, Tammy
Illinois · Dec 1, 2022
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Dec 1, 2022
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Murray, Patty
Washington · Dec 1, 2022
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Padilla, Alex
California · Dec 1, 2022
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Rosen, Jacky
Nevada · Dec 1, 2022
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Smith, Tina
Minnesota · Dec 1, 2022
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5174: Women's Health Patient Navigator Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5174/
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"S. 5174: Women's Health Patient Navigator Act of 2022." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5174/.
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S. 5174, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5174/.
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