Helping with Equal Access to Leave and Investing in Needs for Grieving Mothers and Fathers Act

Bill: 117-hr-6031
Sponsor: Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2021-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Abortion
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: 

Helping with Equal Access to Leave and Investing in Needs for Grieving Mothers and Fathers Act or the HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
 

 This bill revises the family and medical leave entitlement and limits funding to certain family planning programs.
 
 Specifically, the bill provides family and medical leave due to the spontaneous loss of an unborn child of an employee or spouse of the employee. It also establishes a tax credit for an individual who experiences, during the taxable year, the stillbirth of a child who would have been a qualifying child of the individual for the taxable year if the child had been born live.
 
 The bill further prohibits the Office of Population Affairs within the Department of Health and Human Services from providing federal assistance to voluntary family planning programs that (1) perform abortions, (2) provide funding to another entity that performs abortions, or (3) refer patients to abortion providers.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-11-18
text: Introduced in House