Title: Protect Access to Birth Control Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Protect Access to Birth Control Act
This bill nullifies interim final rules issued by the Department of Labor, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Health and Human Services that allow employers with religious or moral objections to be exempt from the requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to cover contraceptive services without cost-sharing.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1985 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1985

   To repeal the rules issued by the Department of the Treasury, the 
 Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services 
  entitled ``Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of 
Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' and ``Moral 
   Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive 
               Services Under the Affordable Care Act''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 19, 2017

 Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. 
   Shaheen, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. 
Booker, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Reed, 
Ms. Hassan, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. 
 Duckworth, Mr. Franken, Mr. Markey, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. 
Warren, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Coons, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Brown, 
   Mr. Merkley, Mr. Udall, Ms. Harris, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. 
Feinstein, and Mr. King) introduced the following bill; which was read 
 twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                                Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To repeal the rules issued by the Department of the Treasury, the 
 Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services 
  entitled ``Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of 
Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' and ``Moral 
   Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive 
               Services Under the Affordable Care Act''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Access to Birth Control 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL.

    The rules issued by the Department of the Treasury, the Department 
of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services entitled 
``Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain 
Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' (82 Fed. Reg. 47792 
(October 13, 2017)) and ``Moral Exemptions and Accommodations for 
Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' 
(82 Fed. Reg. 47838 (October 13, 2017)), shall have no force or effect, 
and shall be treated as though such rules had never taken effect.
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