Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. (Current law prohibits such funds from being used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.) Excludes hospitals from such provisions as long as the hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a list of grantees who perform abortions, regardless of how such abortions are funded. Makes such a grantee ineligible for family planning funds for subsequent fiscal years unless the grantee certifies that neither the grantee nor any subgrantee performs abortions that are not explicitly permitted under this Act.
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2206 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2206
To amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family
planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs
abortions.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 27, 2006
Mr. Vitter (for himself, Mr. Santorum, and Mr. DeMint) 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 amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family
planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs
abortions.
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 ``Title X Family Planning Act''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT.
Section 1008 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300a-6) is
amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 1008. PROHIBITION ON ABORTION.
``(a) In General.--None of the funds appropriated under this title
shall be distributed to grantees who perform abortions or whose
subgrantees perform abortions, except 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. The preceding
sentence shall not apply to a grantee or subgrantee that is a hospital,
so long as such hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity
that performs abortions.
``(b) List.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of
the Title X Family Planning Act, and each fiscal year thereafter, the
Secretary shall submit to Congress a list of grantees, to which
subsection (a) applies, under this title for the fiscal year involved
that perform abortions regardless of how such abortions are funded.
``(c) Limitations on Eligibility.--
``(1) Grantees on list.--A grantee who appears on the list
submitted under subsection (b) for a fiscal year shall not be
eligible to receive assistance under this title for subsequent
fiscal years unless the grantee submits to the Secretary a
certification that such grantee, and the subgrantees of such
grantee, no longer perform abortions.
``(2) Applications for assistance.--To be eligible to
receive assistance under this title, a grantee to which
subsection (a) applies shall submit to the Secretary a
certification that such grantee, and the subgrantees of such
grantee, do not perform abortions other than those abortions
explicitly permitted under subsection (a).
``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Grantee.--The term `grantee' means the organizational
entity or individual to which a grant, under this title is
awarded and which is responsible and accountable both for the
use of the funds provided under the grant and for the
performance of the grant-supported project or activities. A
grantee is the entire legal entity even if only a particular
component is designated in the award document.
``(2) Hospital.--The term `hospital' has the meaning given
that term in section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act.
``(3) Subgrantee.--The term `subgrantee' means the
government or other legal entity to which a subgrant is awarded
under this title and which is accountable to the grantee for
the use of the funds provided under the subgrant.''.
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Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S250)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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