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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 47 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for regulations on protecting statutory conscience rights in health |
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| 6 | 6 | | care. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY9, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. H |
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| 10 | 10 | | AWLEYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To provide for regulations on protecting statutory conscience |
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| 14 | 14 | | rights in health care. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defense of Conscience 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | in Health Care Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. REGULATIONS ON PROTECTING STATUTORY CON-6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SCIENCE RIGHTS IN HEALTH CARE. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) I |
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| 23 | 23 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Human Services shall— 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 47 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) issue, under the Federal conscience and 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | anti-discrimination laws, a final rule that is identical 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | or materially equivalent to the former rule stated in 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | part 88 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, as 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | in effect on July 22, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 23170; re-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | lating to protecting statutory conscience rights in 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | health care; delegations of authority); and 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) specify in the final rule that the rule super-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | sedes any contrary rule in existence on the date of 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | issuance. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) D |
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| 40 | 40 | | EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Federal 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | conscience and anti-discrimination laws’’ has the meaning 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | given the term in the former rule specified in subsection 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (a)(1). 14 |
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