117th Congress (2021–2023) · House bill · Sponsor: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7]
This page covers HR8297 in the 117th Congress. Bill numbers start over every Congress, so HR8297 in another Congress is a different bill.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Roll-call votes | 2 |
| Chamber | House |
| Latest vote | 2022-07-15: Passed |
| Latest action | 2022-07-18: Received in the Senate. |
| Policy area | Health |
| Official record | Congress.gov |
Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act This bill prohibits anyone acting under state law from interfering with a person's ability to access out-of-state abortion services. (Abortion services includes the use of any drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies and any health care services related to an abortion, whether or not provided at the same time or on the same day.) Specifically, the bill prohibits any person acting under state law from preventing, restricting, impeding, or retaliating against health care providers who provide legal abortion services to out-of-state residents, any person or entity who helps health care providers to provide such services, any person who travels to another state to obtain such services, any person or entity who helps another person travel to another state to obtain such services, or the movement in interstate commerce of drugs that are approved to terminate pregnancies. The Department of Justice may enforce this bill through civil actions; the bill also establishes a private right of action for violations.
Subjects: Abortion, Civil actions and liability, Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation, Drug therapy, Health care coverage and access, Health personnel, Right of privacy, Sex and reproductive health, Women's health
Every recorded vote on this bill, newest first, with a link to the official tally. Member-by-member positions are on each member’s profile.
| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay | Not voting | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-15 | House | Yea-and-Nay | Passed | 150 | 146 | 1 | Official tally |
| 2022-07-15 | House | Yea-and-Nay | Failed | 148 | 148 | 0 | Official tally |
HR8297 (Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act) was introduced in the 117th Congress (2021–2023) by Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7].
On 2022-07-18: Received in the Senate.
2 recorded votes in the 117th Congress. The most recent, on 2022-07-15, was "Yea-and-Nay": Passed.