I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 195
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants 
to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations for the purchase of ultrasound 
equipment to provide free examinations to pregnant women needing such 
services, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2003
Mr. STEARNS (for himself, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, 
Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. 
HALL, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. LAHOOD, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. 
PENCE, Mr. PITTS, Mr. ROSS, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. TERRY, 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. ISSA, Mr. LEWIS of 
Kentucky, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, 
Mr. PICKERING, Mr. RYUN of Kansas, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. SMITH of New 
Jersey, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Mr. TIAHRT, Mr. VITTER, Mr. 
WELDON of Florida, Mr. BAKER, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, and Mr. 
FORBES) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to make grants to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations 
for the purchase of ultrasound equipment to provide 
free examinations to pregnant women needing such serv-
ices, 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 ‘‘Informed Choice Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR PURCHASE OF ULTRASOUND EQUIP-
MENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human services may make grants for the purchase of 
ultrasound equipment. Such ultrasound equipment shall 
be used by the recipients of such grants to provide, under 
the direction and supervision of a licensed medical physi-
cian, free ultrasound examinations to pregnant women 
needing such services. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—An entity may re-
ceive a grant under subsection (a) only if the entity meets 
the following conditions: 
(1) The entity is a nonprofit private organiza-
tion that is approved by the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice as a tax-exempt entity under section 501(c)(3) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
(2) The entity operates as a community based 
pregnancy help medical clinic, as defined in sub-
section (f). 
(3) The entity provides medical services to 
pregnant women under the guidance and supervision 
of a physician who serves as the medical director of 
the clinic and is duly licensed to practice medicine 
in the State in which the entity is located.
(4) The entity is legally qualified to provide 
such medical services to pregnant women and is in 
compliance with all Federal, State, and local require-
ments for the provision of such services. 
(5) The entity agrees to comply with the fol-
lowing medical procedures: 
(A) Each pregnant woman upon whom the 
ultrasound equipment is used will be shown the 
visual image of the fetus from the ultrasound 
examination and will be given a general ana-
tomical and physiological description of the 
characteristics of the fetus. 
(B) Each pregnant woman will be given, 
according to the best medical judgment of the 
physician performing the ultrasound examina-
tion or the physician’s agent performing such 
exam, the approximate age of the embryo or 
fetus considering the number of weeks elapsed 
from the probable time of the conception of the 
embryo or fetus, based upon the information 
provided by the client as to the time of her last 
menstrual period, her medical history, a phys-
ical examination, or appropriate laboratory 
tests.