Congress.gov119th Congress

H.R. 211

Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act

Introduced Jan 6, 2025Latest action Feb 6, 2025Armed Forces and National Security

Plain-English summary

Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from requiring payment from a veteran for any contraceptive item that is required to be covered by health insurance plans without a cost-sharing requirement.

Deterministically condensed from the official CRS summary; verify details in the official record.

Issue relevance

Why this appears in Paper Trail

Veterans Services

Matched from official metadata: policy_area: Armed Forces and National Security; subject: Veterans' medical care

Defense

Matched from official metadata: policy_area: Armed Forces and National Security

People and recorded decisions

Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

Suzan K. DelBene

Cosponsor · Democratic · WA

Sheila Cherfilus-Mccormick

Cosponsor · Democratic · FL

Emilia Strong Sykes

Cosponsor · Democratic · OH

G. William (bill) Foster

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Timothy M. Kennedy

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Scott Peters

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Josh Gottheimer

Cosponsor · Democratic · NJ

Nydia M. Velázquez

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Patrick Ryan

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Jerrold L Nadler

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Gwen S Moore

Cosponsor · Democratic · WI

Judy Chu

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Veronica Escobar

Cosponsor · Democratic · TX

Laura Friedman

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

John B. Larson

Cosponsor · Democratic · CT

Seth Moulton

Cosponsor · Democratic · MA

Deborah K. Ross

Cosponsor · Democratic · NC

Rashida Tlaib

Cosponsor · Democratic · MI

Marilyn Strickland

Cosponsor · Democratic · WA

Norma J. Torres

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Paul David Tonko

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Lateefah Simon

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Rohit Khanna

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Maxine Dexter

Cosponsor · Democratic · OR

Darren Soto

Cosponsor · Democratic · FL

Maxwell Frost

Cosponsor · Democratic · FL

Sylvester Turner

Cosponsor · Democratic · TX

Ted Lieu

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Julie Johnson

Cosponsor · Democratic · TX

Mary Gay Scanlon

Cosponsor · Democratic · PA

Joseph D. Morelle

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Betty McCollum

Cosponsor · Democratic · MN

Greg Landsman

Cosponsor · Democratic · OH

Gilbert Cisneros

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Janice D. Schakowsky

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Diana DeGette

Cosponsor · Democratic · CO

Nikki Budzinski

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Gabriel F Amo

Cosponsor · Democratic · RI

Dwight Evans

Cosponsor · Democratic · PA

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Cosponsor · Democratic · DC

Christopher R. Deluzio

Cosponsor · Democratic · PA

Sarah Elizabeth Mcbride

Cosponsor · Democratic · DE

Dina Titus

Cosponsor · Democratic · NV

Jesús G. "Chuy" García

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

George Latimer

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Yvette D. Clarke

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Sean Casten

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Andrea Salinas

Cosponsor · Democratic · OR

James Walkinshaw

Cosponsor · Democratic · VA

Delia Ramirez

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Hillary J. Scholten

Cosponsor · Democratic · MI

Salud O. Carbajal

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Mikie Sherrill

Cosponsor · Democratic · NJ

Edward Case

Cosponsor · Democratic · HI

Kathy Castor

Cosponsor · Democratic · FL

Kelly Morrison

Cosponsor · Other · MN

Mike Levin

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Raul Ruiz

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

William R Keating

Cosponsor · Democratic · MA

Suhas Subramanyam

Cosponsor · Democratic · VA

Steve Cohen

Cosponsor · Democratic · TN

Shri Thanedar

Cosponsor · Democratic · MI

Jill Naomi Tokuda

Cosponsor · Democratic · HI

S. Raja Krishnamoorthi

Cosponsor · Democratic · IL

Greg Stanton

Cosponsor · Democratic · AZ

Jason Crow

Cosponsor · Democratic · CO

Lois Frankel

Cosponsor · Democratic · FL

Chris Pappas

Cosponsor · Democratic · NH

Sydney Kamlager-Dove

Cosponsor · Democratic · CA

Valerie Hoyle

Cosponsor · Democratic · OR

Julia Brownley

Sponsor · Democratic · CA

Angela Dawn Craig

Cosponsor · Democratic · MN

Mark Pocan

Cosponsor · Democratic · WI

Nikema Williams

Cosponsor · Democratic · GA

Sarah Kelly Elfreth

Cosponsor · Democratic · MD

Pramila Jayapal

Cosponsor · Democratic · WA

André Carson

Cosponsor · Democratic · IN

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.

Cosponsor · Democratic · GA

Gerald Edward Connolly

Cosponsor · Democratic · VA

James P Mcgovern

Cosponsor · Democratic · MA

Morgan McGarvey

Cosponsor · Democratic · KY

Rick Larsen

Cosponsor · Democratic · WA

Daniel S. Goldman

Cosponsor · Democratic · NY

Kim Schrier

Cosponsor · Democratic · WA

Jennifer L. McClellan

Cosponsor · Democratic · VA

Emanuel Cleaver

Cosponsor · Democratic · MO

Yassamin Ansari

Cosponsor · Democratic · AZ

No linked House roll-call vote is available yet. Senate votes are not currently synchronized.

Official Subjects

Armed Forces and National SecurityFamily planning and birth controlHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessVeterans' medical careWomen's health

Sources & text

Official Congress.gov record ↗Introduced in House ↗Introduced in House ↗Introduced in House ↗

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