Hyde Amendment Codification Act

Bill: 113-s-142
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion

Appropriations

Government trust funds

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Health programs administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Hyde Amendment Codification Act - Prohibits the expenditure for any abortion of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law or funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by federal law .</p> <p>Prohibits the use of federal funds for any health benefits coverage that includes abortion. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services, and plans receiving federal funds must keep them segregated from any funds for abortion services.)</p> <p>Excludes from such prohibitions an abortion if: (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or (2) the woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would place her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, as certified by a physician.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 142 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2013 Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds for abortions, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hyde Amendment Codification Act . 2. Prohibiting Federally funded abortions Title 1 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end the following new chapter: 4 Prohibiting Federally funded abortions 301. Prohibition on funding for abortions (a) In general No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for any abortion. (b) Health benefits coverage No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. 302. Treatment of abortions related to rape, incest, or preserving the life of the mother The limitations established in sections 301 shall not apply to an abortion— (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. .