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 that their health insurance plans cover contraceptive services without cost-sharing.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4246 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4246

     To provide that the rules 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'' 
         shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2020

    Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Wyden, 
 Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Warren, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Markey, 
 Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Shaheen, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. 
  Gillibrand, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Durbin, Mr. King, Mr. 
Kaine, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Udall, Mr. Booker, Mr. Bennet, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. 
 Klobuchar, Mr. Peters, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Harris, Mr. 
    Heinrich, Mr. Coons, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Tester) 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 provide that the rules 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'' 
         shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.

    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. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO RELIGIOUS AND MORAL 
              EXEMPTIONS AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR COVERAGE OF CERTAIN 
              PREVENTIVE SERVICES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and the Secretary of Labor may not take any action to 
implement, enforce, or otherwise give effect to the rules entitled 
``Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain 
Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' (83 Fed. Reg. 57536 
(November 15, 2018)) and ``Moral Exemptions and Accommodations for 
Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act'' 
(83 Fed. Reg. 57592 (November 15, 2018)).
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