I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8029 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report 
on abortions facilitated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 16, 2024 
Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS (for herself, Mr. MURPHY, and Mr. ROSENDALE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Vet-
erans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to 
Congress a report on abortions facilitated by the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘VA Abortion Trans-
parency Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON ABORTIONS FACILITATED BY THE DE-
PARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently 
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than quarterly thereafter, the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of 
the House of Representatives a report on abortions facili-
tated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—Each report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include, with respect to, in the case of 
the initial report, the 90-day period preceding the date of 
the report, and in the case of each subsequent report, the 
quarter covered by the report, the following: 
(1) The total number of abortions facilitated by 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, disaggregated 
by— 
(A) whether the abortion was conducted at 
a medical center of the Department or through 
a non-Department provider; 
(B) whether the abortion was surgical or 
conducted using mifepristone or another abor-
tion drug; 
(C) whether the abortion was conducted 
for a veteran or a dependent of a veteran; 
(D) the number of weeks at which the 
abortion was conducted; 
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(E) the exception under the laws adminis-
tered by the Secretary under which the abortion 
was justified to be conducted; and 
(F) the Veterans Integrated Service Net-
work and State in which the abortion was con-
ducted. 
(2) Total expenditures for facilitating abortion 
procedures. 
(3) Total expenditures for staff training related 
to the facilitation of abortion. 
(4) Total expenditures for infrastructure im-
provements related to the facilitation of abortion. 
(5) Total expenditures related to the facilitation 
of abortion that are paid out of the Cost of War 
Toxic Exposures Fund under section 324 of title 38, 
United States Code, and an explanation as to why 
the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund was used for 
such expenditures. 
(6) The budget line item or line items of the 
Department through which the Secretary funds the 
facilitation of abortion. 
(c) EXCLUSION OF INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFIABLE PA-
TIENT INFORMATION.—Each report submitted under sub-
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section (a) shall exclude any individually identifiable pa-
tient information. 
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