A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

Bill: 115-s-1114
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2017-05-11
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Labor

Department of the Treasury

Family planning and birth control

First Amendment rights

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Religion

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2017-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2919-2920)

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill nullifies Executive Order 13798, titled &quot;Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty.&quot; The executive order: (1) requires the executive branch to enforce federal law protections for religious freedom and to protect persons and organizations that engage in religious and political speech; (2) prohibits the Department of the Treasury from taking adverse action against individuals, houses of worship, or religious organizations based on their speech about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, a candidate for public office; and (3) requires Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services to consider issuing amended regulations to address conscience-based objections to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's preventive-care mandate, which requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to provide coverage, and not impose cost sharing requirements, for contraception and other additional preventive care and screenings for women.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1114 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 11, 2017 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mrs. Murray , Mr. Wyden , Mr. Franken , Mr. Markey , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Whitehouse , Ms. Harris , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Booker , Mrs. Shaheen , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Coons , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Merkley , Ms. Hassan , Mr. Reed , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Durbin , and Mr. Leahy ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To nullify the effect of the recent Executive order laying a foundation for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals, women, religious minorities, and others under the pretext of religious freedom.

1. Nullification Executive Order 13798 (82 Fed. Reg. 21675; relating to Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty ) shall have no force or effect.